close corporation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of close corporation
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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It was merely a close corporation of hereditary lawyers, whose claim to political functions had been summarily dismissed by Richelieu.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
How he ever laughed his way into that close corporation is a mystery, but somewhere in his twenties he managed it.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
After that period, in the order of things, the coiners formed themselves into a close corporation, with masters, associates, and apprentices, and held jealously to their privileges.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
We are now ready, and desire, to finance a close corporation, with a limited capital, to operate this property on a scale Befitting Its Importance.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline
This is the great evil of the close corporation system.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
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