East India Company

A form of British East India Company — 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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proper nounthe East India Company
  1. alternativeAlternative form of British East India Company.
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East India Company. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/East%20India%20Company

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