public corporation

noun [C]

Definition

› US FINANCE public company: Automakers are profit-driven public corporations.

› ECONOMICS a company, such as a national railway or a mail service, that is owned and managed by the government: In the 1980s, France Telecom was a public corporation.

(Definition of public corporation noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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