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CLOSELY HELD CORPORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does closely held corporation mean? 

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

1. stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few shareholders who have no plans to sellplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CLOSELY HELD CORPORATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few shareholders who have no plans to sell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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


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