1 a company that is owned by one person or a small group of people, for example a family, and whose shares are not traded on a stock market:
2 a company that is not owned by the government:
In 1799 a private company obtained the rights to supply the city with water.
This was a completely state-owned private company which held the natural gas monopoly and, from 1975, was in charge of creating the transmission network.
Of course, this can only work if the private company trusts the breeders' capability.
The intervention of the international community in the affairs of a private company cannot be one-way.
We have seen no times when it has been so necessary to separate parties in private company.
Much of the water undertaking was by private company, and contractual disputes with the municipality were common.
Though a private company without any foreign financial help, it succeeded in producing 1,000 gross of matches per day with 600 labourers.
Is ethical posturing by politicians so fundamentally different to private company advertisements for marketed goods which 'play' on emotions?
