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Enron

Enron

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A large American energy company that collapsed after a major fraud scandal
  • proper noun
  • /ˈɛn.rɒn/
: Enron
  • But my book talks about Enron's early investments in solar power, wind power, all with government favour.
  • Enron Corporation
  • companies like Enron
  • energy trader Enron

And this, the classic example of that was the company Enron, which went bankrupt when you were young.

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Examples

  • Oddly, I awoke today thinking of Enron and what it had done for Houston.

    Blog text (20)

  • Auditors defined victory as ensuring that Enron complied with the letter of the law and nothing more.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • So if you look at a company like Enron, it takes a long time to build that up.

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  • Very few people realize, even in leading law school and schools and business schools, how Enron never could have happened.

  • While that was happening, Enron commissioned its own internal study of global warming science.

    Blog text (32)

  • The independent directors at Enron were as surprised as anyone to learn about the company's problems.

    Academic text (2004)

  • OK, my image of Enron is not that they were a good company who fell off the Cliff one day, but that their bad behavior occurred slowly over time.

  • If, in fact, Rogers was unable to understand these transactions, he could not properly advise Enron regarding the necessary disclosures.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Consider the enormous price hikes by such companies as Enron and Duke after California energy prices were deregulated.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The Enron scandal revealed serious issues in corporate governance and accounting transparency.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Enron was a made-up company name meant to suggest the word energy, because the firm worked in 'energy'. So Enron now names the American energy company that became famous for a large fraud and collapse.