PRIVATELY HELD | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of privately held in English

(Definition of privately held from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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privately held
The company format changes from sole trader to privately held corporation.
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Founded in 2010, the company is privately held and maintains a 160000sqft m2 facility.
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Founded in 1996, the privately held company delivers millions of images daily and develops technology to manage camera networks worldwide.
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Employees had been granted stock in the privately held company as part of their compensation packages.
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Few indications are available on the value of privately held firms.
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Sales of privately held companies are voluntarily reported by business brokers to data re-sellers or unscientifically accumulated by these same private, for profit data re-sellers.
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He estimates that privately held firms produced more income for investors, and had more value than publicly held firms, in 2004.
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First, the aboriginal group was claiming ownership of privately held land.
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P2 employs nearly 700 people and was a privately held portfolio company of.
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At the time it was a privately held company and published limited information about internal affairs.
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