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

Synonyms

company

firm

enterprise

association

guild

business

establishment

concern

society

incorporation

business corporation

union

organization

club

league

gild

fellowship

venture

potbelly

fraternity

institution

group

corp

corporate body

juridical person

legal entity

bay window

partnership

pot

public company

town council

tummy

undertaking

municipal corporation

community

organisation

for-profit corporation

agency

incorporated association

alliance

artificial person

associate

authority

bloc

body

body corporate

business firm

business venture

clique

coalition

Translations

entreprise

Unternehmen

bedrijf

société

Gesellschaft

شركة

companhia

corporación

firma

empresa

società

Körperschaft

corporation

Firma

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: corporacion

In summary

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

The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporation .

A stylised peacock in full display is the logo for the Pakistan Television Corporation .

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

Barco is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio Corporation .

Later he joined in Telugu Desam Party and presided Kapu Corporation .