Corporation Definition
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English
Etymology
From Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin coporare, past participle corporatus (“to form into a body”); see corporate.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- (UK) IPA: /ˈkɔːpoˈreɪʃn/
- (US) IPA: /ˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/
Noun
corporation (plural corporations)
- A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
- In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
- (slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.
Quotations
- paunch
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91
- 'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.
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External links
- corporation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- corporation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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