close corporation

Questions about close corporation

What is another word for close corporation?

It depends which close corporation you mean. In the sense “a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market”, the synonyms are closed corporation, private corporation, privately held corporation. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of close corporation?

WordNet records no antonym for close corporation. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for close corporation come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of close corporation

• Full entry for close corporationAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for close corporationWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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