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PRIVATELY HELD CORPORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does privately held corporation mean? 

PRIVATELY HELD CORPORATION (noun)
  The noun PRIVATELY HELD CORPORATION has 1 sense:

1. a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public marketplay

  Familiarity information: PRIVATELY HELD CORPORATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRIVATELY HELD CORPORATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

close corporation; closed corporation; private corporation; privately held corporation

Hypernyms ("privately held corporation" is a kind of...):

corp; corporation (a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "privately held corporation"):

family business (a corporation that is entirely owned by the members of a single family)


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