单词 | exclusive company |
释义 | > as lemmasexclusive company exclusive company n. now historical a joint-stock company, esp. one with a monopoly on trade in a particular region or commodity (cf. sense A. 6a). ΚΠ 1695 J. Cary Ess. State Eng. 61 To limit this Trade to an exclusive Company. 1752 London Mag. Dec. 546/1 Whether this company ought to be an open or an exclusive company is a question of another nature. 1819 R. Southey Hist. Brazil III. xli. 553 Carvalho also chartered an exclusive Company for the Whale Fishery. 1966 D. B. Davis Probl. of Slavery in Western Culture (1988) v. 131 The slave trade was apparently taken for granted by an exclusive company chartered in 1631 by Charles I. < as lemmas |
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