corporation

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Pronunciation

/ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən/(kor-puh-RAY-shun)

Part of speech

nounneutral

Chinese

公司；企业法人（依法成立的独立法律实体，通常规模较大）

Definition

A large company or group of companies authorised to act as a single entity and recognised as such in law.

Word family

  • corporate/ˈkɔːpərɪt/(adj)公司的；企业的
  • corporatise/ˈkɔːpərətaɪz/(v)使企业化

Collocations

  • multinational corporation
  • public corporation
  • large corporation
  • corporate culture
  • corporation tax
  • private corporation

Examples

  1. 1.Multinational corporations often face criticism for using complex tax structures to minimise their obligations in individual countries.
  2. 2.The corporation was founded in 1984 and has since grown to employ over fifty thousand people worldwide.

Synonyms

  • company/ˈkʌmpəni/— a commercial business
  • firm/fɜːm/— a business organisation
  • enterprise/ˈentəpraɪz/— a business venture

Etymology

from Latin "corporatio," from "corporare" (to embody), from "corpus" (body)