close corporation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of close corporation
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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"Is it a close corporation, so that new partners can not be added?" asked Mr. Stewart, of Nevada.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
Government, as he saw it, was of the nature of a close corporation with a vested interest hostile to the public weal, and his work is penetrated by distrust of power as such.
From Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse
Furthermore, it will make a close corporation of finance and trade, with the government sitting in the board of directors and lending all the aid that imperial support can bestow.
From The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
A Royal Charter, making the proposed university a close corporation under the control of Anglican clergymen, was obtained.
From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold Putnam
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
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