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cor·po·ra·tion (kôr′pə rā′s̸hən)

noun

  1. a legal entity that exists independently of the person or persons who have been granted the charter creating it and that is invested with many of the rights given to individuals: a corporation may enter into contracts, buy and sell property, etc.
  2. a group of people, as the mayor and aldermen of an incorporated town, legally authorized to act as an individual
  3. any of the political and economic bodies forming a corporative state, each being composed of the employers and employees in a certain industry, profession, etc.

  4. Etymology: prob. from assoc. with corpulent, etc.

    Informal a large, prominent belly

Etymology: ME corporacioun < LL(Ec) corporatio, assumption of a body, incarnation < pp. of L corporare: see corporate

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Alternate definitions:

business corporation definition - business

finance corporation definition - finance

law corporation definition - legal

corporation Synonyms

corporation

n.

partnership, enterprise, company, multinational; see business 4, organization 3.


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corporation Usage Examples

Converse of subject

  • dominate: Unfortunately, these sorts of searches are presently dominated by big corporations with hefty search budgets.

Converse of object

  • incorporate: Start a company by incorporating corporation or forming a LTD, PLC or LLP at Coddan.

Adjective modifier

  • multinational: Firstly, from multinational corporations using their new global mobility to head for low tax regimes.

Modifies a noun

  • tax: To start with corporation tax rates are much lower than income tax rates.

Noun used with modifier

  • biotech: But it will help biotech corporations access new markets more easily.
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corporation quotes

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one- trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle. St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley

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