Definitions for public-service corporation

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

pub′lic-serv′ice corpora`tion(n.)

  1. a private or often quasi-private corporation chartered to provide an essential commodity or service to the public.

    Category: Business

Origin of public-service corporation:

1900–05

Princeton's WordNet

  1. utility, public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation(noun)

    a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation


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