corporation
- noun
- /ˌkɔːrpəˈreɪʃən/
- Slang
- She laughed and pointed at his growing corporation after they shared a large pizza.
Examples
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After indulging in too many desserts, he ended up with a noticeable corporation that he couldn't hide.
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I would liken innovation and entrepreneurship to heart and kidneys and the overweight individual to an oversized corporation.
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Now, I'm a man without a corporation.
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Frank's a corporation man, body and soul.
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This corporation ain't got your back, bro.
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Nice, tight little corporation.
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His corporation was hard to miss, especially in that tight-fitting shirt.
Synonyms
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4.0
The stomach or belly, often the round front part of the body where food goes after you eat
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8.4
A large round stomach often caused by weight gain
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3.4
A round stomach that sticks out because of extra fat
A large round belly that sticks out
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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6.8
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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4.4
A company that provides essential services like water or electricity and must follow government rules
- South African
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7.3
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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3.4
- Slang
- Canadian
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- Baby Talk
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4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
corporation = corporate (opaque) = corpor + ation
Although morphologically built from the same corporate element plus '-ation', the slang sense 'paunch' is a humorous/metaphorical extension not deducible from the base meaning.
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the slang corporation for a large belly is that it uses the same Latin root corpus, meaning 'body'. So in a joking way the word calls a big, round belly its own 'body', which is why people use it to mean a paunch.