CORPORATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corporation mean? 

• CORPORATION (noun)
  The noun CORPORATION has 2 senses:

1. a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state

2. slang for a paunch

  Familiarity information: CORPORATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORPORATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

corp; corporation

Hypernyms ("corporation" is a kind of...):

business firm; firm; house (the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments)

Domain member category:

case study (a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure)

judgement in personam; judgment in personam; personal judgement; personal judgment (a judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages)

greenmail ((corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business)

event planner (someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials))

dead hand; mortmain (real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation))

redemption (repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock))

zero-coupon bond; zero coupon bond (a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corporation"):

conglomerate; empire (a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization)

large cap (a corporation with a large capitalization)

small cap (a corporation with a small capitalization)

close corporation; closed corporation; private corporation; privately held corporation (a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market)

closely held corporation (stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few shareholders who have no plans to sell)

shell corporation; shell entity (a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations)

FDIC; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions)

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; FHLMC; Freddie Mac (a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages)

Fannie Mae; Federal National Mortgage Association; FNMA (a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages)

Boy Scouts of America (a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Slang for a paunch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bay window; corporation; pot; potbelly; tummy

Hypernyms ("corporation" is a kind of...):

belly; paunch (a protruding abdomen)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

 Context examples 

An arrangement whereby a third-party payer (e.g., insurance company, federal government, or corporation) mediates between physicians and patients, negotiating fees for service and overseeing the types of treatment given.

(Managed Care, NCI Thesaurus)

A company which has some features of a corporation and some features of a partnership.

(Joint Stock Company, NCI Thesaurus)

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Any of the electronic health record systems and solutions developed by the McKesson corporation.

(McKesson Health Record System, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the electronic health record systems and solutions developed by the NextGen corporation.

(NextGen Healthcare Record System, NCI Thesaurus)

“What, the corporation chain!” cried the other in horror.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A proprietary radiation therapy planning system developed by the Philips corporation.

(Philips Pinnacle, NCI Thesaurus)

Any formal business entity for profit, which may be a corporation, a partnership, association or individual proprietorship.

(Company, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the electronic health record systems and solutions developed by the Epic corporation.

(Epic Health Record System, NCI Thesaurus)

Whether they were a rich or a poor corporation?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)