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corporation
English
Etymology
From Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -e???n
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??p???e???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??p???e???n/
Noun
corporation (plural corporations)
- A body corporate, 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.
- The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
- (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
- (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).
- Synonym: 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.'
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 316:
- He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.
- 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620,[2]
- The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.
Derived terms
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- corporation tax
Hyponyms
- (body corporate): public limited company (UK)
Related terms
- corporate
- incorporate
Translations
Further reading
- corporation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- corporation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
corporation f (plural corporations)
- corporation
- guild
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corporatocracy
English
Etymology
From corporate +? -o- +? -cracy.
Noun
corporatocracy (usually uncountable, plural corporatocracies)
- Rule by corporations.
See also
- inverted totalitarianism
Further reading
- corporatocracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
corporatocracy From the web:
- what does corporatocracy meaning
- what does corporatocracy
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