British East India Company

proper noun

A seventeenth-century British joint-stock company founded to trade with India, and subsequently colonized a large part of the South Asia.

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Meanings

proper nounthe British East India Company
  1. historicalA seventeenth-century British joint-stock company founded to trade with India, and subsequently colonized a large part of the South Asia.
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