Other forms: corporations
A corporation is a very large formal company, often global. A multinational corporation, corporation tax, the corporation said.
In law it is a body treated as a person: it can own, sue and be sued in its own name, and that separation is what limits the owners' liability. A municipal corporation is a town's governing body, which is the older sense. Note that the Latin means formed into a body, from corpus.
1nouncorporationA large company treated in law as a body.
“She left the huge corporation to start her own small business.”
corporation is a legal body.
Latin corporatio comes from corporare, to form into a body, from corpus. Corpse, corps and corporal come from the same body.
Proto-Indo-European
*krep-
Latin
corporatio — assumption of a body
Middle English
corporacion
English, today
corporation
Built from
From Middle English corporacion, corporation, from Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporō (“to form into a body”); see corporate. by surface analysis, corporate + -ion. protruding belly Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA