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Ltd.

American  
Or ltd.

abbreviation

  1. limited.


Ltd British  

abbreviation

  1. US equivalent: Inc.  limited (liability)

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The forced auction was a lengthy process that pitted Amber Energy against one other contender, Gold Reserves Ltd., a creditor of Venezuela that had its gold- and copper-mining assets expropriated.

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Ltd. and the University of Tsukuba, has created an innovative cancer treatment that works without relying on the immune system.

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The Justice Department added the parent company of Smartmatic, SGO Corporation Ltd., as a defendant in a criminal case earlier filed in Miami federal court against three Smartmatic executives.

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And as to production of stone and development of the mines, it seems to me we can do more ourselves than any Proprietary Company, Ltd., or syndicate ever made could.

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