corporation

cor-po-ra-tion · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A large company or group of companies authorized to act as a single legal entity.

  2. 2.

    A group of people elected to govern a city or town.

Forms

plural: corporations

Phrases & expressions

  • •
    multinational corporation — a company operating in multiple countries
  • •
    corporation tax — tax levied on company profits

Related words

See also: business, company, corporate, corporations
Synonyms: business, company, enterprise, firm

Etymology

From Late Latin corporatio meaning "assumption of a body," from Latin corporare ("to form into a body"), from corpus ("body").