close corporation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of close corporation
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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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 Caroline Lockhart
Whoso has passed the system, then, is to their minds one of a close corporation, of a select and intellectual few, and entitled to pose before the uninitiate.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
The faculty was a close corporation and insisted that its members should have a monopoly of all the honors and emoluments that were to accrue from the treatment of the sick and suffering.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
In theory and in practice ‘society’ considers itself, and to some extent is still, a close corporation.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
The other six, the ones who seem to admire Miss Walbert, are another close corporation.
From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Pauline Lester
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