Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naamloze vennootschap is the Dutch term for a public limited liability corporation. The company is owned by shareholders, and the company''s shares are not registered to certain owners, so that they may be traded on the public stock market. The phrase literally means "innominate partnership" and comes from the fact that the partners are not directly known. This is in contrast to the term for a private limited company, which is called Besloten Vennootschap.