shell corporation

1. 1.

   a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations

   Synonymsshell entity

   Broadercorporation

Questions about shell corporation

What does shell corporation mean?

shell corporation means "a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations".

What is another word for shell corporation?

Close synonyms include shell entity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shell corporation a common word?

shell corporation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.