stock company
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(finance) an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value
a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management
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That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares.
Falkland Islands Company's historical building in Stanley Lafone continued to develop his business interests and in 1849 looked to establish a joint stock company with his London creditors.