closed corporation

noun

1. an incorporated business the stock of which is owned by a small group.

closed corporation

noun

1. a corporation the stock of which is owned by a small number of persons and is rarely traded on the open market Alsoclose corporation

Example Sentences

As the years went on she and the boy lived together in a sort of closed corporation paradise of their own.

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A new scholarship boy had one day been assigned to the closed corporation of our particular class-room.

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We establish standards to keep humanity a closed corporation, a special club in which men can live but aliens can't.

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Gunnery was a closed corporation, and the gunner himself a guildsman.

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