Corporation

Etymology
< corporatio: <  coporare:, past participle corporatus:; see corporate.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
 * 3)  A protruding belly; a paunch.

Quotations

 * 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.

Derived terms

 * corporate veil
 * British Broadcasting Corporation

Related terms

 * corporate

Adjectives
prosperous; civil; remarkable; bloated; modern; soulless; giant; moneyed; world-renowned; flourishing; dummy; tremendous; prominent; large.

Verbs
bankrupt—; build up—; charter—; com¬bine in—; constitute—; control—; dominate—; form—; found—; head—; join in—; outlaw—; preserve—; rule— unite in—; —advertises; —branches out; —develops; —employs; —grows; —undersells.

Thesaurus
Aktiengesellschaft, agency, aktiebolag, atelier, barbershop, bay window, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, body corporate, business, business establishment, butcher shop, cartel, chamber of commerce, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, copartnership, corporate body, desk, diversified corporation, enterprise, establishment, facility, firm, holding company, house, industry, installation, institution, joint-stock association, joint-stock company, loft, operating company, organization, parlor, partnership, paunch, plunderbund, pod, pool, pot, public utility, shop, stock company, studio, sweatshop, syndicate, trade association, trust, utility, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 公司 (gōngsī)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Unternehmen, Kapitalgesellschaft , Körperschaft (juristische Person), Innung , Gilde , Gemeindevertretung , -rat
 * Greek:, επιχείρηση,
 * Hebrew: תאגיד (taagyd)
 * Indonesian: perusahaan
 * Irish: corparáid
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 法人 (ほうじん, hōjin) for corporations generally; 株式会社 (かぶしきがいしゃ, kabushiki-gaisha) for business corporations specifically


 * Korean: 기업 (gieop)
 * Latin: (Modern Latin) corporatio nominative, corporationis genitive; (Classical Latin) collegium
 * Latvian: korporācija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Manx: cochorp
 * Portuguese: corporação
 * Romanian: corporație
 * Russian: корпорация (korporátsija)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: (contains many companies),  for a sole incorporated company
 * Ukrainian: корпорація


 * Finnish: korporaatio