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parent company

noun

  1. a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies ( holding company ).


parent company

noun

  1. a company that owns more than half the shares of another company


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Word History and Origins

Origin of parent company1

First recorded in 1865–70

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Example Sentences

Tinder and OkCupid are both owned by IAC, the parent company of The Daily Beast.

Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.

A Texas police organization called for a boycott of parent company Time Warner.

The NSA might gain additional latitude when the software it wants to exploit is no longer supported by its parent company.

The parent company of LS Fashion Limited based in America had made a standard loan investment to the UK subsidiary.

They were in the credit account of Gordon and Gordon, every dollar of which justly belonged to the parent company.

Meanwhile public opinion on this side was far more unfavorable, and the parent company found itself without means or credit.

He made short-term contracts, and tried in every way to keep control of the whole system in the hands of the parent company.

Aluminum castings are obtained from the foundry of the parent company, Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin.

He organized a small group within the parent company, Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin, in 1912.

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