corporation

See also:Corporation

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishcorporacion,corporation,fromLate Latincorporatio(“assumption of a body”),fromLatincorporatus,past participle ofcorporare(“to form into a body”);seecorporate.

(protruding belly):Perhaps a play on the wordcorpulence.

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-eɪʃən

Noun

corporation(pluralcorporations)

1. Abody 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.
   • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter II, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:

     Thatthe young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures andcorporationloans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

2. Themunicipalgoverning body of aboroughorcity.
3. (historical)InFascistItaly,a jointassociationofemployers' andworkers'representatives.
4. (slang,dated,humorous)Aprotrudingbelly.

   Synonym:paunch

   • 1849,Currer Bell [pseudonym;Charlotte Brontë], chapter 5, inShirley. A Tale.[…],volume(please specify |volume=I to III),London:Smith, Elder and Co.,[…],→OCLC:

     [The Rector], looming large in full canonicals, walking, as became a beneficed priest, under the canopy of a shovel-hat, with the dignity of an amplecorporation,the embellishment of the squarest and vastest of black coats, and the support of the stoutest of gold-headed canes.

   • 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 acorporation.'

   • 1974,GB Edwards,The Book of Ebenezer Le Page,New York, published2007,page316:

     He was a big chap with acorporationalready, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

   • 2001,Jamie O’Neill,At Swim, Two Boys‎^[1],London: Scribner,Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620:

     The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering hiscorporationwith as much as his body and limbs would allow.

Hyponyms

• (body corporate):government-owned and controlled corporation,public limited company(UK)

Derived terms

• agricorporation
• anticorporation
• bancorporation
• B corporation
• benefit corporation
• C corporation
• corporation aggregate
• corporational
• corporation bus
• corporation pop
• corporation sole
• corporation tax
• corporationwide
• crown corporation
• Crown corporation
• cybercorporation
• decorporation
• de facto corporation
• eleemosynary corporation
• intercorporation
• megacorporation
• municipal corporation
• noncorporation
• owners corporation
• quasi corporation
• S corporation
• shell corporation
• sole corporation
• subcorporation
• supercorporation

Related terms

• corporate
• incorporate

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krep-(0 c, 11 e)

Translations

body corporate with legal personality

• Armenian:կորպորացիա(hy)(korporacʻia),ընկերություն(hy)(ənkerutʻyun)
• Asturian:corporaciónf
• Belarusian:карпара́цыяf(karparácyja)
• Catalan:corporació(ca)f
• Cornish:korforethf
• Czech:korporacef
• Dutch:corporatie(nl)f
• Esperanto:korporacio
• Galician:corporación(gl)f
• Georgian:კორპორაცია(ka)(ḳorṗoracia)
• German:Körperschaft(de)f,Korporation(de)f
• Hebrew:תַּאֲגִיד(he)m(ta'agíd),חֶבְרָה(he)f(khevrá)
• Italian:ente(it)m,corporazione(it)f
• Latvian:korporācijaf
• Ojibwe:wiiji-bimaadiziimagad
• Ottoman Turkish:لونجه(lonca)
• Polish:korporacja(pl)f
• Portuguese:corporação(pt)
• Russian:корпора́цияf(korporácyja)
• Spanish:corporación(es)f
• Swedish:korporation(sv)c
• Tagalog:korporasyon
• Ukrainian:корпора́ція(uk)f(korporácija)

company owned by shareholders—see alsojoint-stock company,‎public limited company

• Belarusian:акцыяне́рнае тавары́стваn(akcyjanjérnaje tavarýstva)
• Bulgarian:акционе́рно дру́жествоn(akcionérno drúžestvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Cổ phần công ty hữu hạn(zh)(gǔfèn yǒuxiàn gōngsī)

• Czech:akciová společnost(cs)f
• Danish:aktieselskabn
• Dutch:naamloze vennootschapf
• Esperanto:akcia kompanio,akcia societo
• Finnish:julkinen osakeyhtiö
• French:société anonyme(fr)f
• Georgian:სააქციო საზოგადოება(saakcio sazogadoeba)
• German:Aktiengesellschaft(de)f
• Greek:ανώνυμη εταιρίαf(anónymi etairía)
• Hungarian:részvénytársaság(hu)
• Indonesian:perseroan terbatas terbuka
• Italian:società per azioni(it)f,società anonima(it)f,società(it)f,azienda(it)f,ente(it)
• Japanese:Kabushiki gaisha(ja)(かぶしきがいしゃ, kabushiki gaisha)
• Korean:주식회사( kabushiki gaisha )(jusikhoesa)
• Latvian:akciju sabiedrībaf
• Lithuanian:akcinė bendrovėf
• Macedonian:акционе́рско друштвоn(akcionérsko društvo)
• Malay:berhad
• Maori:kaporeihana,rangatōpū
• Marathi:महामंडळn(mahāmaṇḍaḷ)
• Polish:spółka akcyjna(pl)f
• Portuguese:sociedade anónimaf
• Romanian:societate pe acțiuni(ro)f
• Russian:акционе́рное о́бщество(ru)n(akcionérnoje óbščestvo)
• Spanish:sociedad anónimaf
• Swedish:aktiebolag(sv)c
• Turkish:anonim şirket(tr)

governing body of the City of London

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Toà thị chính／Toà thị chính(zh)(shìzhèngtīng)

• Finnish:corporation(fi)
• Italian:consiglio comunale
• Portuguese:please add this translation if you can

Italian association

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Hiệp hội／Hiệp hội(zh)(xiéhuì)

• Finnish:korporaatio(fi)
• Italian:corporazione(it)
• Portuguese:corporação(pt)

slang, dated, humorous: protruding belly

Further reading

• “corporation”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• “corporation”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

corporationf(pluralcorporations)

1. corporation
2. guild

Further reading

• “corporation”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.