EAST INDIA COMPANY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("East India Company" is a kind of...):

company (an institution created to conduct business)

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