Definitions for corporation

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corporation cor·po·ra·tion

Spelling: [kawr-puh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌkɔr pəˈreɪ ʃən/

Corporation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 568 anagrams from letters in corporation (acinoooprrt).

Definitions for corporation

noun

1. an association 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. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
2. (initial capital letter) the group of principal officials of a borough or other municipal division in England.
3. any group of persons united or regarded as united in one body.
4. Informal. a paunch; potbelly.

Origin of corporation

1400-50; late Middle English Late Latin corporātiōn- (stem of corporātiō) ‘guild’, Latin: ‘physical makeup, build’. See corporate, -ion

Examples for corporation

The QC Group Inc A Minnesota-based corporation, owned by Daniel Medford and David DeVowe, which provides quality control services.

A 1907 contract leases the plot of land to the Belgika corporation for five years, but it stayed for much longer.

The civic duties of the corporation, too, were sharply defined.

Creditors pursued him, and he lost his standing in the corporation.

The corporation of Dublin is red-hot in the matter of patriotism.

The cult of corporatism allows us to reimagine the corporation as our ultimate access point to the infinitude of possibility.

The corporation for pecuniary gain has neither body nor soul.

Indeed, the Japanese-owned corporation has set a horrible precedent.

The chair is still preserved by the corporation of that town.

Nobody doubts his manipulative skills or his single-minded agenda to advance the interests of the corporation he created.