corporation

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
• In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
• A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).

Related

Narrower meaning words

• public limited company

Origin

• From Late Latin corporatio ("assumption of a body"), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporō; see corporate.