Public Corporation

Public corporation may refer to:

  • Government-owned corporation
  • Public company, i.e. a limited liability company that offers its securities for sale to the general public.
  • Statutory corporation, i.e. a corporation created by statute, that is owned in part or in whole by a government (examples being are municipal councils, bar councils, universities).

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or corporation:

    Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvellous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can’t decipher the cyrillic alphabet.
    Clive James (b. 1939)

    The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
    C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)