Crown corporation

noun Canadian.

a commercial company owned by the government and controlled and partially operated by civil servants.

Origin of Crown corporation

First recorded in 1960–65

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British Dictionary definitions for crown corporation

Crown corporation

noun

(in Canada) a corporation owned by the federal or a provincial government

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