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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 market
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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