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closerly 

Even more closely. Closely is when you are close to someone or something. e.g. watching something closely or being closely related to somebody.
The cop monitored the gang hideout closely, but he was monitoring the crack den closerly.
closerly by MichaelToTheJ May 10, 2008

closely held 

(BUSINESS) a closely-held corporation has all or most of its stock owned by the management of the firm. In many cases, it has no stock at all (see "going public"), in which case it is a private company.

Usually people say "private corporation" to mean any company that is unaffiliated with the government, or any company run mainly for profit. It's impossible to buck this trend, so corporations with no issues of stock, or negligible amounts of stock held by the public, are called "private companies" despite the fact that not all companies are corporations. Cargill, Inc., for example, has annual revenues of $117 billion, but no shares available for trade. On the other hand, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young are private companies but not a corporations. They are limited liability partnerships. The term "closely held" would not apply to them since partnerships do not issue stock.
Koch Industries is a super-sized, closely held corporation with two owners--Charles and David Koch, heirs to the oil refiner Fred Koch. Thanks to this peculiar status, magazines like Forbes are not allowed to report ANY financial statistics of the company at all (sales figures are suspiciously rounded to "$100,000,000,000.00").

Publix Super Markets (at the other end of the spectrum) is closely held--by its 125,000 employees.
closely held by Abu Yahya September 3, 2010

closetlove 

a bonding experiance in which: while in the act of making out with ur gf/bf his or her parents come home and the male or female proceds to run and hide in closet from sed parents.
*making out*......*front door opens*

female-"o crap, get in the closet now!"

male-*runs into closet with shirt off and hides in corner*

10-mins later....

*shirt gets thrown in*

5 mins later.....

female-"go, go now!"

male-*runs like hell!*-"man that was sum good closetlove!"
closetlove by Marc Bruckel October 25, 2007

working closely 

A term used by those that are usually in deep shit, or leach off of another entities reputation. This is done by piggy backing off of another entity with a good reputation, so it falsely communicates a sense of "we know what we are doing."
FDA: We issued a letter to Whole Foods saying they f*cked up and mislabeled their food and it made a lot of people with allergies sick.
AMAZON: we're working closely with the FDA to get our shit together.
working closely by whitekarp December 23, 2020
1. Acting like you are in the closet

2. Making a comment, which would otherwise seem proactive in a political progressive and mostly liberal way, that will assuredly make others wonder about your hetro to homo ratio.
He's more offended about that word that all of my gay friends combined; seems kinda closety to me.
Closety by Arden187 June 1, 2010

closetlove 

a bonding experiance in which: while in the act of making out with ur gf/bf his or her parents come home and the male or female proceds to run and hide in closet from sed parents.
*making out*......*front door opens*

female-"o crap, get in the closet now!"

male-*runs into closet with shirt off and hides in corner*

10-mins later....

*shirt gets thrown in*

5 mins later.....

female-"go, go now!"

male-*runs like hell!*-"man that was sum good closetlove!"