Brewer's: Credit Mobilier

(French). A company licensed to take in hand all sorts of trading enterprises, such as railways, and to carry on the business of stock-jobbers. The word mobilier means personal property, general stock, as bien mobilier (personal chattels), mobilier vif et mort (live and dead stock).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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