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shell | Business English

shell
noun[ C ]
 FINANCE, LAWuk /ʃel/us(alsoshell company); (alsoshell corporation)
a company that has been created to hide illegal activities:
The shell advertised bonds for sale to investors, but this offering was essentially a fraud because no bonds ever existed.
She played a vital role in the bribery scheme by creating a shell company to receive a flow of illicit payments.
a company that has been officially created so that it can be sold to someone who does not want to have to create the company themselves:
Most holding company reorganizations involve a merger between the pre-existing company and a shell company.
a company that was active in the past, but that now does little or no business, that someone buys so they do not have to create a new company:
Maypole was created out of a shell company called Octagon.
shell
adjective[ before noun ]
 FINANCE, LAWuk /ʃel/us
used to describe an organization that has been created to hide illegal activities:
The bill would prevent US banks from opening accounts for foreign shell banks.

Examples of shell

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Based on the unfinished margins of some of the irregular beads, these were made from the whorl of marine shells.
Another noteworthy feature, this time of a mechanical nature, of such shells is that they offer no resistance to crumpling when they are deflated.
Here they knock out electrons from inner electronic shells of the atoms, producing core holes.
From early times shells have been valued as curiosities and for their extraordinary forms.
The motors are mounted offcentre in cylindrical shells that allow the belt tension to be adjusted.
In order to regulate the implosion of shells by usual thermal ablation-compression, the selection of velocities around 4.5 x 107 cm s-1 is important.
The concentric spherical shells, the so called "onions," constitute a form of carbon consisting of spherical concentric layers of carbon shells.
At the same time, particular tools can have the eect of increasing experience, and thus demand, as the experience with expert system shells has shown.
The final velocities achieved for these unstable thin shells are equivalent to those of the uniform-fill loads.
They form either helical structures or enclosed shells ; the latter are spherical and possess icosahedral symmetry.
X-ray and neutron scattering analyses of hydration shells : a molecular interpretation based on sequence predictions and modeling fits.
On death, the shells are incorporated into the lake sediments, thereby preserving a record that can be used to infer past climate change.
Apart from this, the model is parameter free and is used to obtain the contribution of the different target shells at the different ionization stages.
The work with the batch of shells enables us to carry out the statistical investigations on fuel layering.
There are also various analogues shells, pinecones, praying hands - and precedents that arise as metaphors.
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Collocations withshell

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These are words often used in combination with shell.

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abalone shell
This book also stated that everyone at the time grew azaleas, even if the poorest people had to use an abaloneshell as a container.
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