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private-equity company

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noun

  1. an organization that uses private equity to gain control of and manage companies

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The private-equity company reported weaker profitability at Action, which accounts for the bulk of the group’s portfolio value.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Another $30 billion would be provided by private-equity company Redbird, which was also part of the Paramount deal, as well as two Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

Neither Jared Kushner, who now runs a private-equity company, nor Charles Kushner, who serves as chairman of the Kushner real estate company, responded to requests for comment.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

The $1.5 billion figure to which Mr. Trump referred on Thursday appears to be the amount of money that a Shanghai-based private-equity company, BHR Equity Investment Fund Management Co., aimed to raise in 2014.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2019

A man named Siegfried, who used to supervise mining conglomerates in Burkina Faso but whose business card now bears the name of a Zug-based private-equity company, was also hanging around.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

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