close corporation

American  

[klohs] / kloʊs /

noun

1. closed corporation.

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close corporation British  

/ kləʊs /

noun

1.  c.c..  a small private limited company

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Etymology

Origin of close corporation

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

For they belonged to the close corporation of "bien men," and his familiarity with them was a proof to the world of his greatness.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

Of course some artists, strictly so called, object to regarding photography as anything but a mechanical process, but the number of those who would make art a close corporation is happily diminishing.

From Pictorial Photography in America 1922 by Pictorial Photographers of America

The governing charter thenceforth in many boroughs, though not in all, was the charter which had established a close corporation, and from this time on to 1835 the boroughs made no progress in constitutional growth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

If they can find suitable material to mine and without too much expense for apparatus, they will start in at once with a close corporation.

From Polly and Eleanor by Barbour, Harold S.

Let us bind ourselves by Tolstoy; let us agree to loosen ourselves by Nietzsche; but, in any case let us agree to love our neighbour on the principle of a close corporation.

From Personality in Literature by Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold