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close corporation

[ klohs ]

close corporation

/ kləʊs /

noun

  1. a small private limited company c.c.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of close corporation1

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

A close corporation—stock held at $5,000 per share, but none in the market.

They are not; they are merely the employees of a close corporation.

The somatoplasm can only in the most general way affect the self-perpetuating, close corporation of the germ-plasm.

Society is a sort of close corporation, and we must know its watchwords, and keep an interest in its interests and affairs.

How he ever laughed his way into that close corporation is a mystery, but somewhere in his twenties he managed it.

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