Definition of Public-service corporation

1. Noun. A company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Public-service Corporation

pubkeeper
pubkeepers
publands
public
public-house
public-houses
public-intoxication
public-key cryptography
public-law
public-relations
public-relations campaign
public-school
public-sector
public-service corporation (current term)
public-spirited
public access
public access television
public address system
public authorities
public authority
public charity
public comment
public comments
public convenience
public debate
public debt
public defender
public discussion

Literary usage of Public-service corporation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"A corporation operating a telephone system upon private property for its own use is not a public service corporation. On the other hand, general us* by the ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The contract rate was valid and binding upon both parties but subject to revision by the Public Service Corporation, aa the public good might require. ..."

3. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Public service corporation of New Jersey-font. Public service publicity work in Newark, N. Pennsylvania public service companv law. ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"The district court accordingly declined to give a technical* meaning to the term "public service corporation," and interpreted it in the broad popular sense ..."

5. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"Every railroad or other public service corporation organized or doing business in this State, under the laws or authority thereof, shall have and maintain a ..."

6. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... to be held solely as security for indebtedness pursuant to such trust: And provided further, That no public-service corporation shall hold any land, ..."

7. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1906)
"Schmidt, FW, Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, Jersey City, NJ Schwabe, Walter P.. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, Rutherford, NJ Shaw, ..."

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