private company

noun

British.

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

private company

noun

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of private company¹

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

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“It is not customary practice to verify transactions of a private company in a background check.”

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It's not clear when the festival and the procession started but the ritual has been followed since then, even when the management of the airport passed on to the government and then a private company.

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He told the BBC there was "no such thing" as a large private company in China and questioned Jingye's motivation for buying British Steel.

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If this mission is meant to inspire girls and young women to achieve the impossible, rather than being a giant flying billboard for a private company, well, it does feel like quite a tone-deaf way to do it right now.

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A Labour MP has apologised and referred himself to Parliament's standards watchdog after praising a private company in the House of Commons without declaring it had given him a £10,000 donation.

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