American English Dictionary
Definition of “corporation”
Word Frequency
corporation (ˌkɔrpəˈreɪʃən
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Definitions
noun
- 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.
- a group of people, as the mayor and aldermen of an incorporated town, legally authorized to act as an individual
- 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.
- (informal) a large, prominent belly
Synonyms
View thesaurus entryTranslations for 'corporation'
- American English: corporation A corporation is a large business or company with special rights and powers. corporations...multinational corporations.
- Brazilian Portuguese: corporação
- Chinese: 大公司/企业大公司/企業
- European Spanish: corporación
- French: société
- German: Unternehmen
- Italian: società a responsabilità limitata
- Japanese: 企業
- Korean: 법인
- Portuguese: corporação
- Spanish: corporación
Example Sentences Including 'corporation'
At the very least, they had been involved with Morgana, Inc., the shadow corporation that dealt in illegal arms trading.Floating City (1994)
Their rationale: the bishop's corporation manages property, not priests.Time Magazine (2002)
McDonald's, among others, is a corporation that we love to hate.Seattle Times (2004)
The mMode division is closer to a startup than others in the company, but it belongs to a large corporation nonetheless.Seattle Times (2002)
The e-mail comes from a monitoring system we've set up to watch the entire corporation for suspicious activity.HACKER CRACKER (2002)
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