close corporation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of close corporation
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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Society, still a close corporation, 198; but more and more subject to external influences, 198; recruited from alien elements, 199; ideal standard of, unaltered, 202.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
This is the great evil of the close corporation system.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. 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 Harold S. Barbour
In nearly all parts of the South, indeed, it is a close corporation which controls or seeks to control all the federal offices.
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson
Nancy and I chum together, and it’s a close corporation.
From A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall by Amy Bell Marlowe
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