corporation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large company, especially one made up of several businesses.

   She works for a multinational corporation with offices worldwide.

2. 2
   noun

   An organization legally treated as a single body, separate from its owners.

   The business was registered as a corporation to limit personal risk.

3. 3
   noun

   The official body that governs a city or town.

   The city corporation approved the plan for a new park.

From Middle English corporacion, corporation, from Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate. (protruding belly): Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.

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