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chartered companies
chartered companies associations for foreign trade, exploration, and colonization that came into existence with the formation of the European nation states and their overseas expansion. An association received its charter from the state and sometimes had state support. In the regulated company each... Read more
public utility
public utility industry required by law to render adequate service in its field at reasonable prices to all who apply for it. Public utilities frequently operate as monopolies in their market. In the United States, public utilities are most commonly involved in the business of supplying consumers w... Read more
American Fur Company
American Fur Company chartered by John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) in 1808 to compete with the great fur-trading companies in Canada—the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. Astor's most ambitious venture, establishment of a post at Astoria , Oreg., to control the Columbia River va... Read more
leveraged buyout
leveraged buyout the takeover of a company, financed by borrowed funds. Often, the target company's assets are used as security for the loans acquired to finance the purchase. The acquiring company or group then repays the loans from the target company's profits or by selling its assets. Many lever... Read more
Virginia Company
Virginia Company name of two English colonizing companies, chartered by King James I in 1606. By the terms of the charter, the Virginia Company of London (see London Company ) was given permission to plant a colony 100 mi (160 km) square between lat. 34°N and lat. 41°N; the Virginia Compan... Read more
credit card
credit card device used to obtain consumer credit at the time of purchasing an article or service. Credit cards may be issued by a business, such as a department store or an oil company, to make it easier for consumers to buy their products. Alternatively credit cards may be issued by third parties... Read more
Kirov Ballet
Kirov Ballet one of the two major ballet companies of Russia, the other being the Bolshoi Ballet . In 1991 it was officially renamed the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet; however, on its frequent tours abroad it is still called the Kirov Ballet. Often regarded as the foremost European ballet compan... Read more
insurance
insurance or assurance, device for indemnifying or guaranteeing an individual against loss. Reimbursement is made from a fund to which many individuals exposed to the same risk have contributed certain specified amounts, called premiums. Payment for an individual loss, divided among many, does ... Read more
William George Fargo
William George Fargo 1818-81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for an express company in Buffalo, N.Y., when in 1844, with Henry Wells and another partner, he organized Wells & Company, the fir... Read more
British East India Company
British East India Company 1600-1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies. However, after 1623, when the English traders at Amboina were massacred b... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Types of companies"

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...rights to MBTI in 1975. The company estimates that it administers...different personality types. Each type is indicated by a four-letter...judging. For each personality type, the MBTI system includes...humor," while people of type ENFJ (extroverted-intuiting...fields for their personality ...
Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome Type II
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders ...cure for Ramsay-Hunt syndrome type II. Seizures may respond to...Prognosis Ramsay-Hunt syndrome type II generally progresses to death...Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 2003. PERIODICALS Sacquegna...NINDS). Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome Type II Fact Sheet. (May 23, 2004...
SIC 3541 Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...SIC 3541 MACHINE TOOLS, METAL CUTTING TYPES This industry details establishments primarily...engaged in manufacturing metal cutting type machine tools, not supported in the hands...333512 (Machine Tool (Metal Cutting Type) Manufacturing) Industry Snapshot The...were becoming more popular with larger ...
SIC 3542 Machine Tools, Metal Forming Types
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...TOOLS, METAL FORMING TYPES This industry covers...The vast majority of companies in this industry were...employees. However, the company took a downturn in 2003...was Minster Machine Company of Minster, Ohio...machine shops employ both types of machine tools. The...Most metal forming ...
Pensions, Plan Types and Policy Approaches
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging PENSIONS, PLAN TYPES AND POLICY APPROACHES The U.S. retirement income system...plans. The percentage of the private workforce covered by any type of employer-sponsored retirement plan continued to increase...coverage in the United States varies sharply by size of firm. In companies with one hundred or more ...
Inventory Types
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management Inventory Types Inventory is defined as a...finished goods inventory, companies are able to promise customers...lead times. They also enable companies to accept longer inbound lead...suppliers. Generally, inventory types can be grouped into four classifications...inbound supply chain; the ...
Database Administration
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...It is found in almost every company data center. An RDBMS sorts...was spurred in large part by companies that realized that they had...will become the most popular type because the need to store disparate types of information is growing. An example of the type of data that might be ...
Employee Benefits
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed. ...options are another type of benefit many companies offer their employees. These types of benefits often encourage...remain with the same company because they do not...are the most common types of benefits employees receive, some companies offer even more types of benefits to ...
B2E Management (Business to Employee)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management ...effort to sell outside of the company, whether to other businesses...However, there is another type of selling that companies are beginning to find more attractive, especially large companies, and this is B2E, or business...products and services within the company, advertising to ...
Cerebral Angiitis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders ...damage to the brain. The second type causes abrupt, acute damage...although the stroke-like type of cerebral angiitis may reveal...Recovery and rehabilitation The type of rehabilitation program required will depend on the types of deficits caused by cerebral...St. Louis: W. B. Saunders ...

Dictionary entries related to "Types of companies"

Typewriter
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...engineer to the New River Water Company," for "an Artificial Machine...typographer. This was an indicator type machine using printer's type arranged on a swinging sector...keys for each character, and type bars pivoted around an arc so...
Delegation of Powers
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...by Congress: Panama Refining Company v. Ryan (1935), Schechter...Coal Company (1936). Three types of delegation can be identified...policy. This, the most common type of delegation, is exemplified...are "reasonable." A second type is contingency delegation. In this type, legislation ...
stock
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...subscription of shares: the company's stock rose by 86...shares of a particular company, type of company, or industry: blue...adj. 1. (of a product or type of product) usually kept in...denoting a conventional character type or situation that recurs in...
swap
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management ...a borrower can exchange the type of funds most easily raised for the type of funds required, usually...a bank. For example, a UK company may find it easy to raise a...they need. The other common type of swap is an interest-rate...net cash flows of different types of borrowing instruments ...
Plaskett, John Stanley
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...went to the Edison Electric Company, first in Schenectady, New...particular attention to early type O and B stars, and he studied...motions of stars of spectral types O5 to B7 (1930). Plaskett...Velocities of 523 O- and B-Type Stars Obtained at Victoria...Radial Velocities of O- and B-Type ...
deferred ordinary share
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management deferred ordinary share 1. A type of ordinary share , formerly often issued to founder members of a company, in which dividends are only paid after all other types of ordinary share have been paid. They...to a large share of the profit. 2. A type of share on which little or no dividend...
Great Lakes Steamships
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...railroads, many East Coast railroad companies used these boats as connector...active in the 1870s, a new type of vessel was used to haul this type of awkward cargo. At the same...and many other vessels of this type were still built of wood, iron...
London, Heinz
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...months with the W. C. Heraeus chemical company completed undergraduate studies in Berlin...elaborated into the distinction between type I and type II superconductors. The special properties of type II superconductors proved of great technical...
Department Stores
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...line. Industrialization also enabled companies to produce new goods that the buying public...goods, but the cycle begged for some type of marketing or retail system to marry goods to consumers. A new type of store filled the bill. City stores...departments" which contained similar types of goods. ...
image map
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet ...HYPERLINKS to other Web pages. For example, a company which is based in the United Sates might...providing this facility. There are two types of image map: CLIENT SIDE IMAGE MAPS...IMAGE MAPS . The latter is the oldest type of image map. When a user clicks on this type of map the browser sends the ...

Thesaurus entries related to "Types of companies"

order
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...literary behest. antonym: suggestion.   6. the company has won the order synonyms : commission, contract, purchase...sect.   11. skills of a very high order synonyms : type, kind, sort, nature, variety; quality, caliber, standard...
run
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...someone a ride/lift.   10. he runs a mail-order company synonyms : be in charge of, manage, direct, control, head...access to.   6. the usual run of movies synonyms : type, kind, sort, variety, class.   7. a dog run synonyms...
cast
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...informal chuck.   3. an inquiring cast of mind synonyms : type, sort, kind, character, variety, class, style, stamp...our spring musical synonyms : actors, performers, players, company, troupe; dramatis personae, characters. phrase: cast aside...
form
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...sponsorship is a form of advertising synonyms : kind, sort, type, class, classification, category, variety, genre, brand...develop; informal dream up.   3. they plan to form a company synonyms : set up, establish, found, launch, float, create...
group
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...classification, grouping, set, lot, batch, bracket, type, sort, kind, variety, family, species, genus, breed...a group of tourists synonyms : crowd, party, body, band, company, gathering, congregation, assembly, collection, cluster...
hang
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...to, haunt; informal hang out in.   2. she's hanging around with a gang of marketing types synonyms : associate, mix, keep company, socialize, fraternize, consort, rub elbows; informal hang out, run around, be thick, hobnob...
symbol
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...token, sign, badge, representation, figure, image, type.   2. mathematical/chemical symbol synonyms : sign, character, mark.   3. the symbol of the company synonyms : stamp, emblem, badge, trademark, logo, monogram...

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Moveable type: A rapidly disappearing collectible
Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the headline or "display" type in metal or wood now sells from...Collectors also seek more unusual type such as letters in foreign alphabets...chapters, logos and stylized company signature blocks, and other...000 collectors of moveable type, many of whom have personal...
Type 2 diabetes increasing in youth
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 10/10/2004; 700+ words ; ...relationship between obesity and both types of diabetes among children, presenting...Accelerator Hypothesis: Excess Weight Fuels Type 1 Diabetes as Well as Type 2 In one study...accelerating factor for the development of type 1 diabetes and could be contributing to...difficult to distinguish ...
Jaguar X-Type will linger 4 more years.(News)
Magazine article from: Automotive News; 4/11/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...stuck with the underperforming X-Type sedan for four more years, say company sources. That's bad news for Jaguar dealers. X-Type sales in America, lackluster when...mulling whether to continue the X-Type in the United States. Jaguar is...
Stunning F-type Jag confirmed
Newspaper article from: The Press; 1/10/2001; ; 660 words ; ...ahead with its gorgeous F-type roadster, writes DAVE MOORE. Production of Jaguar's F-type roadster concept car, which...has been confirmed by the company's chairman, Dr Wolfgang Reitzle...convinced Jaguar to build the F- type," he said. The car has been...
Japanese believe blood type tells all: ; Matchmakers provide blood-type compatibility tests; some companies use typing to make decisions
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 2/2/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...husbands according to blood type. It doesn't stop there...Matchmaking agencies provide blood-type compatibility tests, and some companies make decisions about assignments based on employees' blood types. Children at some kindergartens are divided up by blood type, and the women's softball...
My Type of Place.
Magazine article from: Creative Review; 7/3/2006; 700+ words ; ...historical printed form at the Type Museum.) The museum needs...your skills, and those of your company, to raise funds, to raise...For more information on the Type Museum, call 020 7735 0055...Bruno Maag is a partner at type designers Dalton Maag and chairman...
Improved Type 2 Diabetes Web Site, ACTOS.com, Encourages Patients to 'Take Action'.
PR Newswire; 11/15/2001; 700+ words ; ...America, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company are offering a new and improved Web site for people with type 2 diabetes with the upgrade...dedicated to helping people with type 2 diabetes and their loved ones...resources to motivate people with type 2 diabetes to "take action...
STUDY: TYPE A'S SURVIVE LONGER AFTER HEART ATTACK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/14/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...believed to fall into Type A and Type B categories, but because...less studied among women. The Type A debate began in 1960, when...men employed in 10 California companies. They studied not only the...also the men's personality types. Eight and a half years later, this study found, the ...
Type 2 Diabetes Market Dynamics Report Now Available.
Business Wire; 3/19/2008; 700+ words ; ...currently available therapies for type 2 diabetes. In what way are...current leading therapies? Which companies are leading the development...Scope - Current therapies, type 2 diabetes: Metformin (biguanide...physician preferences. - Type 2 diabetes market: 2007 sales...
Type foundries of America and their catalogs.
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 3/22/1996; 700+ words ; ...proprietor of a major printing company in Baltimore and an enthusiastic...the library of the American Type Founders Company. With these...believed to have collections of type specimen books. The task took...and no showings of individual type families; (b) foundry types only -- no ...