corporation

Meaning

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. In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
4. (slang) A protruding belly.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/

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.

Sentences

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation in Boulder , Colorado , designed and built the spacecraft .