Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A company formed to supply gas to a community for illuminating or other purposes, generally at a certain rate per 1,000 feet.
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Examples
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The government workers had frequently been friends with the oil - and gas-company workers since childhood, the report found, raising questions about whether maintaining an arms-length relationship between government and industry would be possible in the Louisiana office.
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His plan: to pay off back wages due to soldiers and other state workers by January, using (in words only a former gas-company executive like Chernomyrdin could love) "a controlled emission" of new funds.
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Q: We recently sold some gas-company shares that my wife received as a gift more than 25 years ago.
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By now also, Cowperwood had invested about one hundred thousand dollars in his gas-company speculations, and he was jubilant over his prospects; the franchises were good for twenty years.
The Titan 2004
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Numerous creditors, bill-discounters, money-lenders, jewelers, lace-venders, tax-collectors, gas-company agents, all persons having claims to urge pressed them at this period simultaneously.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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Numerous creditors, bill-discounters, money-lenders, jewelers, lace-venders, tax-collectors, gas-company agents, all persons having claims to urge pressed them at this period simultaneously.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 3 Lyndon Orr
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By now also, Cowperwood had invested about one hundred thousand dollars in his gas-company speculations, and he was jubilant over his prospects; the franchises were good for twenty years.
The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908
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At that moment the great Birmingham gas-company was employing the services of one trained chemist.
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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Eleven firefighters and a gas-company worker died, more than 100 other people were injured, buildings were flattened and fires broke out everywhere.
azcentral.com | news 2010
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Murray attended gas-company meetings, even dragging along a geologist, but the company never mentioned hydro-fracking.
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