close corporation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of close corporation
First recorded in 1915–20
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This is the great evil of the close corporation system.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
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
It'll be a close corporation, and if we strike oil, we'll all three have a good thing.
From The Mardi Gras Mystery by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones
In England, where the opposite principle was adopted, the Ministry became first the committee of an oligarchical Parliament and later a close corporation nominating the legislature which is supposed to check it.
From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
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