Meaning of corporation | Babel Free

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1. A body 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.
2. A body 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
3. Ellipsis of City of London Corporation.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
4. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
5. A commercial organization:business, company, concern, enterprise, establishment, firm, house.
6. The municipal governing body of a borough or city
7. council
8. In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
   historical
9. united. corporate effort. verbonde, korporatiewe مُتَّحِـد، مُتَضامِن корпоративен conjunto společný vereinigt virksomheds-; selskabs- συλλογικόςconjunto ühendatud, ühine مشترک؛ گروهی yhteinen unifié שִׁתוּפִי निगम से सम्बन्धित zajednički egyetemleges bersatu sameiginlegur collettivo 共同の 법인의 bendras kopīgs korporat gezamenlijkfelleszbiorowy متحد شوى، يو شوى سره نښتى: حقوقى شخصيت conjunto colectiv корпоративный spoločný skupen udružen gemensam, kollektiv ที่ร่วมกัน ortak, birleşik, birleşmiş 集...
10. In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives
11. guild
12. A protruding belly.
    dated, humorous, slang
13. a body of people acting as one individual eg for administration or business purposes. the British Broadcasting Corporation. korporasie هَيْـئَـه корпорация corporação společnost die Korporation virksomhed εταιρείαcorporación korporatsioon, aktsiaselts هر گروهی که بتواند مانند یک فرد عمل کند yhtiö sociétéתאגיד निगम korporacija társaság perusahaan hlutafélag; fyrirtæki; viðurkenndur réttaraðili corporazione, società 法人 법인 korporacija, bendrovė korporācija perbadanan corporatieselskapprzedsiębio...
    eg
14. A protruding belly
15. An entity such as a business, municipality, or organization, that involves more than one person but that has met the legal requirements to operate as a single person, so that it may enter into contracts and engage in transactions under its own identity.
16. Such a body created for purposes of government. Also called body corporate.
    body corporate
17. A group of people combined into or acting as one body.
18. Informal A protruding abdominal region; a potbelly.
    Informal
19. (Law) a group of people authorized by law to act as a legal personality and having its own powers, duties, and liabilities
20. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Also called: municipal corporation the municipal authorities of a city or town
21. a group of people acting as one body

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Examples

“That the 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 and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.”

“[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 ample corporation, the embellishment of the squarest and vastest of black coats, and the support of the stoutest of gold-headed canes.”

“'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'”

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

“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 his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.”

“In one respect at least the Corporation acts as the superior body: it imposes on the House of Commons a figure called the remembrancer: an official lobbyist who sits behind the Speaker's chair and ensures that, whatever our elected representatives might think, the City's rights and privileges are protected.”

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