parent company
noun
a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
parent companies
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pluralof parent company.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A first-of-a-kind lawsuit against Meta and Google, parent companies of Instagram and Youtube, began trial in Los Angeles Feb. 9, with the plaintiff’s attorney claiming the apps have “engineered addiction in children’s brains.”
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026
The U.S.-based parent companies generate roughly three-quarters of value added, conduct about 85% of total research and development, and undertake close to 80% of capital investment in plant and equipment.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
That doesn’t include revenues from Google’s TPU business or Amazon’s custom chips sales, neither of which are broken out by their parent companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
Everton and Aston Villa followed suit, selling their women's teams to parent companies The Friedkin Group and V Sports respectively.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
Here they amassed wealth for the parent companies in distant lands, and ruthlessly despoiled the wild of its furry denizens.
From The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills by Ridgwell Cullum
