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

Of course some artists, strictly so called, object to regarding photography as anything but a mechanical process, but the number of those who would make art a close corporation is happily diminishing.

From Pictorial Photography in America 1922 by Pictorial Photographers of America

Sum are a close corporation breed, and sum are bilt more apart, like a hemlock slab.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

Furthermore, it will make a close corporation of finance and trade, with the government sitting in the board of directors and lending all the aid that imperial support can bestow.

From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

Society, still a close corporation, 198; but more and more subject to external influences, 198; recruited from alien elements, 199; ideal standard of, unaltered, 202.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

Hardenberg now had an assured position in that close corporation of sovereigns and statesmen by whom Europe, during the next few years, was to be governed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various