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Definition of Investment company
1. Noun. A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies.
Specialized synonyms: Hedge Fund, Hedgefund, Mutual Fund, Mutual Fund Company, Open-end Fund, Open-end Investment Company, Closed-end Fund, Closed-end Investment Company, Face-amount Certificate Company, Real Estate Investment Trust, Reit, Unit Investment Trust, Unit Trust, Fixed Investment Trust, Nondiscretionary Trust
Generic synonyms: Nondepository Financial Institution
Derivative terms: Fund, Fund
Lexicographical Neighbors of Investment Company
Literary usage of Investment company
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"During all the years since the execution of the conveyance to Williams and Cummings
and by them to the Georgia investment company the lodge has relied upon ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"investment company contained and provided for in IV. o^ 3—continued. (k) Affected
by stipulation against implied covenants. 226. d. ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"All authorized agents of a "dealer" or investment company shall be registered
with the Commission, and if the "dealer" be a nonresident or a corporation ..."
4. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1867)
"1 HIS was a suit for the purpose of setting aside an allotment of ten shares made
to the Plaintiff in the Estates investment company, Limited, ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1917)
"Upon duly protested default of said Gardiner investment company under the terms
of said contract, the Maine Trust and Banking Company will sell the shares ..."
6. International Tax Issues Relating to Globalization: Hearing Before the edited by William V. Roth, Jr. (1999)
"... LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATIVE] The investment company Institute (the "Institute") [1]
urges the Committee to enhance the international competitiveness of ..."
7. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1903)
"At the foreclosure sale, the Deming investment company, plaintiff in error, ...
Thereafter, the investment company applied for, received and paid 72t> for a ..."
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