close corporation

American  

[klohs] / kloʊs /

noun

1. closed corporation.

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close corporation British  

/ kləʊs /

noun

1. c.c.. a small private limited company

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Etymology

Origin of close corporation

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

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close corporation

In nearly all parts of the South, indeed, it is a close corporation which controls or seeks to control all the federal offices.

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson

Hardenberg now had an assured position in that close corporation of sovereigns and statesmen by whom Europe, during the next few years, was to be governed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

"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

This close corporation of printers and publishers exercised its powers for the protection of its members rather than of authors.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson

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

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