"company seal" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: company seals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} company seal (plural company seals)
  1. (historical) A device used to impress a company's name and/or symbol onto a dollop of soft red wax attached to a legal instrument, where two directors or one director and the secretary could sign as witnesses, thus executing the instrument. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-company_seal-en-noun-nPzxJFxm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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