corporation

English Online Dictionary. What means corporation‎? What does corporation mean?

English

Etymology

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.

(protruding belly): Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹpɚˈeɪʃən/, /ˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

corporation (plural corporations)

1. 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.
2. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
3. (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
4. (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly.

   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.'

Hyponyms

• (body corporate): government-owned and controlled corporation, public limited company (UK)

Derived terms

Related terms

• corporate
• incorporate

Translations

Further reading

• “corporation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “corporation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

corporation f (plural corporations)

1. corporation
2. guild

Further reading

• “corporation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.