corporation
∞
3.7
- noun
- /ˌkɔːrpəˈreɪʃən/
:
corporación
- The new corporation aims to revolutionize the tech industry with its innovative products.
- multinational corporations
- large corporations
- private corporations
Basically 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.
Academic text (2017) -
In other words, the court held that the actions of those two corporations were not connected.
Academic text (2017) -
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.
Academic text (2008) -
Professionals and professors from around the world work in corporations and universities in rural areas.
Academic text (2011) -
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.
Academic text (2008) -
Darklake is a huge corporation specializing in genetic research.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A business that makes and sells things or offers services for money
∞
1.9
A company that provides professional services like lawyers or accountants
82
6.9
A company that is legally created to do business
Antonyms
161
2.9
A business where two or more people run it together and share the money and losses
- Specialized
3
7.0
A business owned and run by one person who keeps the profits and accepts all losses
Compounds
- Specialized
8
3.7
A company owned by a small group whose shares are not sold to the public
- Specialized
7
7.4
A company that exists only on paper and has no real business used to hide ownership or move money
3
4.1
A United States government group that promises to pay back people's bank deposits if a bank fails
1
6.0
A US company backed by the government that buys home loans to help banks lend more
- Specialized
1
6.3
A company, often a bank, that manages money and property for other people
- South African
A company that a small group of people own and run and whose shares are not sold to the public
- Specialized
A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public
- Specialized
A company owned by a small group whose shares are not sold on the stock market
- Literature
Popular music made by big companies to sell well and often not very original
An agency of the World Bank Group that gives money to private companies and guarantees loans to support development
A company owned by a few people whose shares are not sold on public stock markets
- Specialized
A company that provides essential services like water or electricity and must follow government rules
How Big
44
7.0
3
3.9
∞
3.7
∞
1.0
- Specialized
3
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.