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Limited company   /lˈɪmətəd kˈəmpəni/   Listen
adjective
Limited  adj.  Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. (Eng.)






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"Limited company" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sinclair's book a motley variety of European emigrants, speaking a Babel of languages and therefore debarred from forming some sort of association to protect themselves against being exploited by the anonymous limited Company. Notwithstanding this natural bar against united action on the part of the wage-earning slaves, the Company feels far from at ease and jealously guards its interests against any attempt ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair

... rather domineering benevolence: a benevolence which she unconsciously, but systematically frustrated. All this scheming for selling out and making reservations and hanging on and fixing prices and getting private bids for Manchester House and for the Endeavour, the excitement of forming a Limited Company to run the Endeavour, of seeing a lawyer about the sale of Manchester House and the auctioneer about the sale of the furniture, of receiving men who wanted to pick up the machines upstairs cheap, and of keeping everything dangling, deciding nothing, putting everything off till she had ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... a fishery. At any rate, the concession. To work it properly we require capital. That's why I'm here—to turn the concern into a limited company." ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke



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