private company
Definition
A company whose shares are not traded on the open market. opposite of public company.
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Related terms:
closed corporation, fiscal policy, private equity, publicly held, publicly traded, Reverse Take-Over, RTO, option pool, reverse merger, private corporation and 
'private company' appears in the definitions of these other terms on BusinessDictionary.com:
buyout, Bank of England
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