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East India Company

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 Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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