[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

corporation \cor`pora"tion\ k^or`p-or=a"shu^n, n.
   l. corporatio incarnation: cf. f. corporation corporation.
   a body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to
   act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity
   of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting
   business as an individual.
   1913 webster

   note: corporations are aggregate or sole. corporations
         aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a
         society, which is preserved by a succession of members,
         either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by
         the power that formed it, by the death of all its
         members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or
         by forfeiture. such corporations are the mayor and
         aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college,
         the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the
         stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. a
         corporation sole consists of a single person, who is
         made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him
         some legal capacities, and especially that of
         succession, which as a natural person he can not have.
         kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in
         england sole corporations. a fee will not pass to a
         corporation sole without the word "successors" in the
         grant. there are instances in the united states of a
         minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the
         right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in
         massachusetts. corporations are sometimes classified as
         public and private; public being convertible with
         municipal, and private corporations being all
         corporations not municipal.
         1913 webster

   close corporation. see under close.
      1913 webster
see also:
corporations aggregate corporation sole private corporations close corporation close 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

close \close\ kl=os, a. compar. closer kl=o"s~er;
   superl. closest. of.  f. clos, p. p. of clore. see
   close, v. t.
   1. shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.
      1913 webster

            from a close bower this dainty music flowed.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters. "a
      close prison." --dickens.
      1913 webster

   3. oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a
      feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc.
      1913 webster

            if the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and
            doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the
            other maketh it exceeding unequal.    --bacon.
      1913 webster

   4. strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close
      prisoner.
      1913 webster

   5. out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden. "he
      yet kept himself close because of saul." --1 chron. xii. 1
      1913 webster

            "her close intent."                   --spenser.
      1913 webster

   6. disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent. "for
      secrecy, no lady closer." --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact;
      as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as
      applied to liquids.
      1913 webster

            the golden globe being put into a press, . . . the
            water made itself way through the pores of that very
            close metal.                          --locke.
      1913 webster

   8. concise; to the point; as, close reasoning. "where the
      original is close no version can reach it in the same
      compass." --dryden.
      1913 webster

   9. adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; --
      often followed by to.
      1913 webster

            plant the spring crocuses close to a wall.
                                                  --mortimer.
      1913 webster

            the thought of the man of sorrows seemed a very
            close thing -- not a faint hearsay.   --g. eliot.
      1913 webster

   10. short; as, to cut grass or hair close.
       1913 webster

   11. intimate; familiar; confidential.
       1913 webster

             league with you i seek
             and mutual amity, so strait, so close,
             that i with you must dwell, or you with me.
                                                  --milton.
       1913 webster

   12. nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.
       "a close contest." --prescott.
       1913 webster

   13. difficult to obtain; as, money is close. --bartlett.
       1913 webster

   14. parsimonious; stingy. "a crusty old fellow, as close as a
       vise." --hawthorne.
       1913 webster

   15. adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact;
       strict; as, a close translation. --locke.
       1913 webster

   16. accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating;
       strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.
       1913 webster

   17. phon. uttered with a relatively contracted opening of
       the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in french,
       italian, and german; -- opposed to open.
       1913 webster

   close borough. see under borough.

   close breeding. see under breeding.

   close communion, communion in the lord's supper, restricted
      to those who have received baptism by immersion.

   close corporation, a body or corporation which fills its
      own vacancies.

   close fertilization. bot. see fertilization.

   close harmony mus., compact harmony, in which the tones
      composing each chord are not widely distributed over
      several octaves.

   close time, a fixed period during which killing game or
      catching certain fish is prohibited by law.

   close vowel pron., a vowel which is pronounced with a
      diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of
      the cavity of the mouth.

   close to the wind naut., directed as nearly to the point
      from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail;
      closehauled; -- said of a vessel.
      1913 webster
see also:
closer closest close close borough borough close breeding 
breeding close communion close corporation close fertilization fertilization 
close harmony close time close vowel close to the wind 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

close corporation
     n : a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public
         market syn: closed corporation, private corporation,
          privately held corporation
see also:
closed corporation private corporation privately held corporation 

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