shell entity

1. 1.

   a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations

   Synonymsshell corporation

   Broadercorporation

Questions about shell entity

What does shell entity mean?

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

What is another word for shell entity?

Close synonyms include shell corporation. 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 entity a common word?

shell entity 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.