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

Example Sentences

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close corporation

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 Brown, George Douglas

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 Nielson, William Allan

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 Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)

"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 Barnes, William Horatio

This privilege ultimately became merely a theoretical right at Bologna, where the teachers tended to become a close corporation of professors, like the Senatus of a Scottish University.

From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.