long firm
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- Perhaps from the idea that such a firm (company) would claim to have been established for a long time.
- Perhaps from Old English gelang (“fraudulent”) and Italian firma (“signature”).[1]The template Template:rfv-etym does not use the parameter(s):
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Noun[edit]
long firm (plural long firms)
- A company of swindlers who obtain goods on pretence of being established in business, and then decamp without payment to do the same elsewhere.[2]