Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares.
- n. A permanent company that performs a repertoire of plays, usually at a single theater.
Wiktionary
- n. finance An incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Com.) an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value.
- adj. (Theater) a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a company whose capital is represented by stock
- n. a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire
Examples
“Don Juan, an Eighteenth Century stock company leading man or whiskey drummer.”
“I directed a summer stock company when I was a little boy in Red Bank, New Jersey; I also directed some theatre in the borscht belt and was a drummer-comic there.”
“I knew Miss Rehan when she was in the stock company at Albany in her early days.”
“He had occasionally gone to the theatres-to the stock company on fashionable Madison Square, or to the Italian opera at the Academy of Music-and dropped in afterwards at the gay Fifth”
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]
“WALLACE presented the petition of citizens of Preston, Barbour and Monongalia counties, asking the incorporation of a joint stock company to repair and macadamize the Morgantown and Beverley turnpike road; which was ordered to be referred to the committee of roads and internal navigation.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
“At that time I was the "leading" man of Maguire's Opera-house of San Francisco, the stock company of which embraced the names of Julia Dean Hayne, Agnes Booth, Charles Thorne, Louis Aldrich, and J.B. Booth.”
“WALLACE presented the petition of citizens of Preston and Monongalia counties, asking the incorporation of a joint stock company to repair and macadamize the Morgantown and Beverley turnpike road; which was ordered to be referred to the committee of roads and internal navigation.”
Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861.
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