corporation
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- noun
- /ˌkɔːrpəˈreɪʃən/
- The new corporation aims to revolutionize the tech industry with its innovative products.
- multinational corporations
- large corporations
- private corporations
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Watch on YouTubeBasically a big tax break for corporations going two years back.
- Basically a big tax break for corporations going two years back.
- Every single time he would say our corporations are desperate for workers.
- What I can't stand is these corporations that pay no tax.
- How does raising taxes on corporations reduce inflation?
- But we are lost if we don't remember that corporations aren't persons.
- How is it that lawmakers, lobbyists and corporations are working so hard at it?
- Instead, it's the Native corporations that own our ancestral lands.
- And we need people and organizations and corporations like Verizon.
- China tends to stimulate property developers and corporations, not individuals.
- There are in fact more corporations in Delaware than there are people.
- But, and so the corporations now are paying heed to that.
- But that doesn't mean the corporations have completely bought their mind.
Examples
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The only difference between corporations ABC and LMN is the primary asset the latter owns.
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In other words, the court held that the actions of those two corporations were not connected.
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I would have no problem if I found the right corporation to work for.
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'Well, as we all know, a giant corporation...' -
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Guess who runs the corporation?
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The business environment has become attractive to foreign corporations seeking regional and international headquarters.
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Professionals and professors from around the world work in corporations and universities in rural areas.
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Mathis Corporation presents a new vision for Detroit.
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In the past, corporate philanthropy was the preferred way for corporations to give back to society.
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Darklake is a huge corporation specializing in genetic research.
Synonyms
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1.0
A business that makes and sells things or offers services for money
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1.9
A company that provides professional services like lawyers or accountants
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6.9
A company that is legally created to do business
Antonyms
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2.9
A business where two or more people run it together and share the money and losses
- Specialized
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7.0
A business owned and run by one person who keeps the profits and accepts all losses
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.7
A company owned by a small group whose shares are not sold to the public
- Specialized
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7.4
A company that exists only on paper and has no real business used to hide ownership or move money
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4.1
A United States government group that promises to pay back people's bank deposits if a bank fails
An agency of the World Bank Group that gives money to private companies and guarantees loans to support development
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6.0
A US company backed by the government that buys home loans to help banks lend more
- Specialized
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6.3
A company, often a bank, that manages money and property for other people
- Specialized
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A company owned by a small group whose shares are not sold on the stock market
A company owned by a few people whose shares are not sold on public stock markets
- Specialized
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A company that provides essential services like water or electricity and must follow government rules
- South African
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A company that a small group of people own and run and whose shares are not sold to the public
- Specialized
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7.0
A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public
- Literature
Popular music made by big companies to sell well and often not very original
How Big
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7.0
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∞
1.0
- Specialized
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7.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Corporation comes from the Latin word corpus, meaning 'body', and you can see the same root in words like corpse and corporal. So a corporation is literally a 'body' of people joined to act as one, which is why the law treats a company like one person.