With the. Chiefly with capital initial. The East India Company. Cf. John Company n. at John, n. compounds 1a. Now historical.
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business > trading in specific place (6) company1599 With the. Chiefly with capital initial. The East India Company. Cf. John Company n. at John, n. compounds 1a. Now historical. East India Company1608 a company formed to conduct trade with India and South-East Asia; spec. the English trading company incorporated in 1600; similarly the Dutch East Ind… South Sea Company1708 a joint-stock trading company incorporated in 1711 and given exclusive trading rights for slaves and other goods in Spanish America, in return for… EIC1730 = East India Company n. at East India, n. 1a. John Company1782 (a personification of or humorous name for) the (English or British) East India Company. north-west1837 North American. Short for ‘North West Company’, a syndicate of fur traders formerly based in Montreal. Obsolete. |
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