government-owned company

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meaningsofgovernment-ownedandcompany

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government-owned
adjective
uk
/ˌɡʌv.ən.məntˈəʊnd/us
/ˌɡʌv.ɚn.məntˈoʊnd/
relating to companies and other organizations that are the property of ...
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company
noun
uk
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/us
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/
an organization that sells goods or services in order to ...
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(Definition ofgovernment-ownedandcompanyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Company, as a whollygovernment-ownedcompany, is not in the business of making a profit.
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Then he comes to the point that the staff would find the establishment of agovernment-ownedcompanyextremely unsettling.
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This will not be achieved by a partgovernment-ownedcompany.
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The company has already had experience of how its status as agovernment-ownedcompanycan interfere in the obtaining of contracts overseas.
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It will be agovernment-ownedcompany; and the names of companies are rarely mentioned in legislation.
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In this case we feel that would not be achieved by a partgovernment-ownedcompany.
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Railtrack, when established, will be agovernment-ownedcompany.
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The effect of this deletion is that a target investment limit for the government shareholding could not apply to a company which became agovernment-ownedcompanybefore privatisation.
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As part of that process, it was semi-commercialised, and operated as agovernment-ownedcompanyrather than as a government department.
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The department considered creating a separategovernment-ownedcompanythat would own these.
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Telkom, asgovernment-ownedcompany, is required to comply with additional obligations such as provide telecommunication services and not to discriminate.
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As part of that process, it was semi-commercialised, and now operates as agovernment-ownedcompanyrather than as a government department.
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Austral became agovernment-ownedcompanyin 1980.
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Generally speaking, a statute passed by a state legislature specifically sets up agovernment-ownedcompanyin order to undertake a specific public purpose with public funds or public property.
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We see no reason for singling out government-owned companies in this amendment.
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Government-owned companies are a distinct category and the legislation is not relevant to their establishment.
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Clause 3 deals with various financial provisions concerned with the government-owned companies that are to form the medium of the privatisation.
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The law is a follow-up to a 1997 government paper, which made clear that water supply concessions would only be given to government-owned companies.
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By law, there are public monopolies: government-owned companies controlling oil and gas, electricity, water, etc.
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