corporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹpɚˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: corporations
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.
Senses: examples: text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
glosses: The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
glosses: In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
examples: text: [The Rector], looming large in full canonicals, walking, as became a beneficed priest, under the canopy of a shovel-hat, with the dignity of an ample corporation, the embellishment of the squarest and vastest of black coats, and the support of the stoutest of gold-headed canes.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Whitsuntide”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 127–128:
text: '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.'
ref: 1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91
text: He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 316:
text: 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.
ref: 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620:
synonyms: paunch
glosses: A protruding belly.
Hyponyms: sense: body corporate
word: government-owned and controlled corporation
sense: body corporate
word: public limited company
Derived terms: agricorporation
anticorporation
bancorporation
B corporation
benefit corporation
C corporation
corporation aggregate
corporational
corporation bus
corporation pop
corporation sole
corporation tax
corporationwide
crown corporation
Crown corporation
cybercorporation
decorporation
de facto corporation
eleemosynary corporation
intercorporation
megacorporation
municipal corporation
noncorporation
owners corporation
quasi corporation
S corporation
shell corporation
sole corporation
subcorporation
supercorporation
Related terms: corporate
incorporate