close corporation

[ klohs ]

noun

1. closed corporation.

close corporation

/ kləʊs /

noun

1. a small private limited company c.c.

Word History and Origins

Origin of close corporation¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

A close corporation—stock held at $5,000 per share, but none in the market.

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They are not; they are merely the employees of a close corporation.

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The somatoplasm can only in the most general way affect the self-perpetuating, close corporation of the germ-plasm.

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Society is a sort of close corporation, and we must know its watchwords, and keep an interest in its interests and affairs.

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How he ever laughed his way into that close corporation is a mystery, but somewhere in his twenties he managed it.

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