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closed corporation n
(Business / Commerce) US a corporation the stock of which is owned by a small number of persons and is rarely traded on the open market Also close corporation ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Marriage was an economic pact in which fidelity was essential to maintain a stable home for kids and, in more traditional societies, to ensure the purity of bloodlines--only the wife's chastity could assure the father that the children he was raising, and to whom he would pass on his property, were really his, The family was primarily an economic institution, and monogamy guaranteed that it would remain a closed corporation. The court rejected the plaintiff's argument that because jasmine was a closed corporation, the defendants had a duty to treat it as a partnership and to respond to the plaintiffs request as if she were a partner. To date, the state Department of Justice, which enforces the Gaming Registration Act, has stated that an owner or operator of a gaming club must be an individual, partnership or closed corporation -- not a publicly traded corporation. |
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