English Explanatory Dictionary

long firm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A company of swindlers who obtain goods on pretence of being established in business, and then decamp without payment to do the same elsewhere.

Word forms

long firm long firms

Etymology

* 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”).

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