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noun British.

a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.

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How to use public company in a sentence

Having served on public company boards, growth-stage businesses and Series A startups, an observation I have made in boards that are later stage are more about financial analysis and governance.
Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups|Walter Thompson|February 12, 2021|TechCrunch
Such a regulator would be constantly rethinking the role of a public company and public markets and their obligation not just to investors but to other constituencies.
GameStop mania exposes SEC’s failure as regulator|Steven Pearlstein|January 30, 2021|Washington Post
Look no further than some of the largest public companies in the space.
As ad tech surges, challenges remain — and not just from the coronavirus pandemic|Seb Joseph|January 5, 2021|Digiday
Until now, SPACs were usually a means of taking public companies that “perhaps weren’t ideally suited for a primetime IPO,” like online gambling or marijuana businesses, Buyer says.
Why investors jumped on board the SPAC ‘gravy train’|ehinchliffe|December 18, 2020|Fortune

Online retailer Wish fell 16% in its trading debut Wednesday, in a more muted start to life as a public company than for DoorDash and Airbnb last week.
Online retailer Wish falls in 2020’s worst debut for big U.S. IPO|Verne Kopytoff|December 17, 2020|Fortune
When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
'Babylon' Review: The Dumb Lives of Trigger-Happy Cops|Melissa Leon|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion|Nina Strochlic|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
As such it is now presented to the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to deserve.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Many of these have been seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery and in other public exhibitions.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
As company after company appeared, we were able to form a pretty exact estimate of their numbers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson

British Dictionary definitions for public company

public company

noun

a limited company whose shares may be purchased by the public and traded freely on the open market and whose share capital is not less than a statutory minimum; public limited companyCompare private company

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Cultural definitions for public company

public company

A company that sells shares in itself to the public to raise capital. When a previously privately owned company offers shares, it is said to “go public.”