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private company

noun

British.
  1. a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.



private company

noun

  1. a limited company that does not issue shares for public subscription and whose owners do not enjoy an unrestricted right to transfer their shareholdings Compare public company

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of private company1

First recorded in 1905–10
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The security presence at SoFi Stadium was normal, however, visibly limited to uniformed police officers and the ubiquitous yellow-clad workers from Contemporary Services Corp., a private company.

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Murdock returned Dole to public trading in 2009, then in 2013, at age 90, reacquired it as a private company.

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She said she was repeatedly told by the personnel department, which functions like a human resources department at a private company, that she couldn’t fire problem employees.

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Netanyahu also said the controversial US-Israeli plan for aid in Gaza - which would bypass existing UN facilities and use a private company to distribute food from hubs in southern and central Gaza protected by security contractors and Israeli troops - would give Israel "another tool to win the war".

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A paper published earlier this month takes a look at three decades of the ESA, pointing out multiple ways in which transparency and consistency have already been lacking in the Habitat Protection Plans required under the current legislation in order for any non-federal entity — such as a state, local or tribal government, or a private company — to be issued an “incidental take permit.”

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