privately held corporation

Questions about privately held corporation

What is another word for privately held corporation?

It depends which privately held corporation you mean. In the sense “a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market”, the synonyms are closed corporation, close corporation, private 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 privately held corporation?

WordNet records no antonym for privately held 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 privately held 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 privately held corporation

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