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East India Company

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Noun

1. east india company

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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East India Company

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noun
1. 
the company chartered in 1600 by the British government to trade in the East Indies: after being driven out by the Dutch, it developed trade with India until the Indian Mutiny (1857), when the Crown took over the administration: the company was dissolved in 1874
2. 
any similar trading company, such as any of those founded by the Dutch, French, and Danes in the 17th and 18th centuries

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East India Company

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any of several European companies for carrying on trade with the East Indies; esp., such an English company chartered in 1600 and dissolved in 1874

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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