Chartered Company

A chartered company is an association formed by investors or shareholders for the purpose of trade, exploration and colonization.

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Famous quotes containing the words chartered and/or company:

    When he speaks,
    The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It has lately been drawn to your correspondent’s attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be. Indeed, it turns out that as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, she ranks somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice- skate. It would appear, from the actions of the assembled guests, that she is about as hot company as a night nurse.
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