corporation
nounEtymology
From Middle English corporacion, corporation, from Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate. By surface analysis, corporate + -ion. (protruding belly): Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.
- derived from corporatus
- derived from corporatio
- inherited from corporacion
Definitions
A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence…
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.
- With his twin notes, Mr. Musk waded directly into a fractious debate over the right way for corporations to bring workers back to the office during the coronavirus pandemic.
The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
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A protruding belly.
- '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.'
- He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.
Ellipsis of City of London Corporation.
The neighborhood
- neighborcorporate
- neighborincorporate
Derived
agricorporation, anticorporation, bancorporation, B corporation, benefit corporation, C corporation, corporation aggregate, corporational, corporation bus, corporation law, corporation lawyer, corporation pop, corporation sole, corporation tax, corporationwide, crown corporation, cybercorporation, decorporation, de facto corporation, Delaware corporation, eleemosynary corporation, intercorporation, megacorporation, municipal corporation, noncorporation, owners corporation, quasi corporation, S corporation, shell corporation, sole corporation, subcorporation, supercorporation
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at corporation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at corporation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at corporation
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA