corporation

[US]/ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃn/
[UK]/ˌkɔːrpəˈreɪʃn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a large business or organization that is owned and managed by shareholders, with a separate legal identity.

Phrases & Collocations

public corporation

multinational corporation

financial corporation

transnational corporation

corporation law

investment corporation

international corporation

professional corporation

finance corporation

private corporation

business corporation

corporation tax

trading corporation

international finance corporation

british broadcasting corporation

news corporation

corporation stock

holding corporation

mtr corporation limited

Example Sentences

a corporation's issuable profits.

a corporation's audio-visual department.

It is a legal fiction that a corporation is a person.

The inflation did the corporation up.

The international corporation's headquarters is / are in Washington.

the headquarters of a multinational corporation;

The corporation was founded in 2006.

corporations that cosponsored a marathon.

the corporation executed a series of financial deals.

BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation.

a large corporation that depersonalizes its employees.

developed a national corporation into a worldwide business.

Many computer software corporations are experiencing financial reverses.

(Purpose of this Corporation is to engage inanely lawful act or activity for which corp.

With this software,corporation can become informative,automatic and vitric.

We have connections with various international corporations in Europe.

"The international corporation paid $50,000 for the firm, and $2,000 for its goodwill."

Real-world Examples

25% of those who head large corporations were born into affluent families.

Source: Advanced Interpretation Listening Fourth Edition

NASA wasn't just one big corporation making everything.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) July 2019 Collection

It's instantly the biggest corporation in the world.

Source: Legend of American Business Tycoons

And what do corporations do all day?

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) September 2016 Collection

" You're suited for data processing for a large multinational corporation."

Source: Friends Season 1 (Edited Version)

Almost all the major American corporations do business in China.

Source: CRI Online March 2019 Collection

So you could say it puts the corporation above the nation.

Source: BBC Ideas Selection (Bilingual)

You are telling me that the corporations paid for my admission?

Source: BBC Listening Collection November 2016

But they are the face and voice of their parent corporations.

Source: newsroom

Nevertheless, it was the largest corporation in the world at the time.

Source: Vox opinion

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