Corporation

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  • noun. An entity such as a business, municipality, or organization, that involves more than one person but that has met the legal requirements to operate as a single person, so that it may enter into contracts and engage in transactions under its own identity.
  • noun. Such a body created for purposes of government.
  • noun. A group of people combined into or acting as one body.
  • noun. A protruding abdominal region; a potbelly.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An artificial person, created by law, or under authority of law, from a group or succession of natural persons, and having a continuous existence irrespective of that of its members, and powers and liabilities different from those of its members.
  • noun. The body, generally large, of a man or an animal.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
  • noun. See under Close.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A group 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.
  • noun. In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
  • noun. A protruding belly; a paunch.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state
  • noun. slang for a paunch
    • Word Usage
    "The term corporation, over there, is commonly applied only to the mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of a city, as in the London corporation."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    belly  paunch  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    association  bank  committee  company  department  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Aktiengesellschaft  agency  aktiebolag  atelier  barbershop  
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