Anglo, noun

/ˈæŋɡləʊ/
Short for Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited, the largest mining and financial house in southern Africa; sometimes used allusively (see quotation 1989) as a symbol of powerful business interests. Also attributive. In the plural, the shares of this company.
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Registered as a public company in 1917.
1971 C.J. Juta in New Nation June 11Despite increases in the tonnages milled at all mines of the Anglo Group, except East Daggafontein, only three of the Group’s goldmines managed to improve their working profits during June (1970) quarter.
1989 D. Gold in Dictionaries 248A South African English informalism that should be added is Anglo ‘the Anglo-American Corporation’. It is found in the South African English expression Anglo will provide..which is a bittersweet one-liner among South Africans asked about the country’s long-range prospects.
1993 Daily News 7 Dec. 14 (caption)Anglos and De Beers glitter.
1993 J.O. Thompson in Weekly Mail & Guardian Oct. (Suppl.) 4Together with De Beers, Anglo spends about R3,3-million a year on more than 1 200 disadvantaged students at private schools, in pre-university bridging programmes, and on vocational scholarships at universities and technikons.
1994 B. Cohen in Weekly Mail & Guardian 18 Mar. 14Despite the unbundling of Anglo’s newspaper interests, a chronic monopoly still exists in the English press.
Short for Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited, the largest mining and financial house in southern Africa; sometimes used allusively (see quotation 1989) as a symbol of powerful business interests. Also attributive. In the plural, the shares of this company.
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