Meaning

2 senses
  1. A new company, especially one spun-off from or replacing an existing company as a legal fiction to maintain ownership over an entity while separating it from the old company financially.

  2. A placeholder name for a business in textbooks.

Origin

From new + co.

From new + co.

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Forms

plural: newcos
Singularnewco
Pluralnewcos

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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