SHELL CORPORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shell corporation mean? 

• SHELL CORPORATION (noun)
  The noun SHELL CORPORATION has 1 sense:

1. a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHELL CORPORATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

shell corporation; shell entity

Hypernyms ("shell corporation" is a kind of...):

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