corporation

5 definitions • 10 examples

a large company or group of companies that is controlled together as a single organization:

a multinational corporation

the British Broadcasting Corporation

She didn't want to work for a big corporation where everything was so impersonal.

the organization in a particular town or city that is responsible for services such as cleaning roads:

a municipal corporation

an organization, esp. a business, that has a legally separate existence from the people who run it:

multinational corporations

She was elected to the board of directors of the corporation.

a large company, or a group of companies that are controlled as a single organization:

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a global/multinational corporation It is a global corporation with over 416,000 employees in 190 countries.

in the UK, a public organization:

The city formed a nonprofit local government corporation.

British Airways was a public corporation at that time.