Corporation

Quick meaning: Corporation is a noun meaning The municipal governing body of a borough or city.

Meaning

The municipal governing body of a borough or city.

More Meanings

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. (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
3. (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly.

Example Sentences

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

'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.'

With his twin notes, Mr. Musk waded directly into a fractious debate over the right way for corporations to bring workers back to the office during the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

Word Forms

• corporations

Synonyms for corporation

Depending on context, synonyms include paunch, pot, tummy, potbelly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include potbelly, pot, tummy, incorporated, firm, corporate.

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