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Chartered company

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, chartered company means: A company granted special rights by a ruler or state, historically sometimes including trade monopolies or governing powers.

In Turkish: imtiyazlı şirket

How it is used

Identify the granted privileges; not every chartered company exercised territorial rule.

Example sentences

  1. The chartered company claimed exclusive access to the route.

    Its commercial position rests on a grant of authority.

  2. The archive reveals tensions between the chartered company and the crown.

    Private organization and public authority could pursue different interests.

Common collocations

  • a chartered company
  • chartered trading company
  • mercantilismAn economic policy common in Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century that tried to increase a state's wealth and power by exporting more than it imported and building up gold and silver.
  • colonialismThe policy or practice of a state taking control of other territories and peoples, settling or ruling them, and using their land and resources for its own benefit.

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