corporationn.
/ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkɔrpəˈreɪʃən/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > [noun]
incorporation1398
corporation1439
inclusiona1500
comprehension1541
incorporature1570
incorporating1579
including1598
incision1601
insition1601
comprising1603
assumption1617
inlaying1674
embodying1677
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > corporation or body corporate > action of incorporating
corporation1439
incorporationc1460
incorporating1651
affiliation1791
1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §20. m. 13 As touchyng the corporacion of the toune of Plymmouth.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 Thother company called ‘the Surgeons’, be not incorporate, nor have anny maner of corporation.
1542 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. l. 376 An act..for the union and corporation of small and exile benefices.
2. Frequently with capital initial. Originally: the civic authorities of a city, borough, or incorporated town, comprising its mayor, aldermen, and councillors. In later use: the elected governing and administrative body of a municipality; a city, borough, or town council; cf. municipal corporation n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > town or borough council
corporation1463
Common Council1467
consulatea1513
state1516
town council1637
commonality1649
regency1704
communa1711
municipality1790
municipal corporation1833
commune1837
borough council1879
municipy1882
1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §8. m. 2 Every persone nowe inhabitaunt within any cite..beyng a shire corporat, not beyng freman, nor of the corporacion of the same.
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Cabíldo An assembly of Aldermen. A corporation of a citie.
?1610 W. Holbrooke Loues Complaint sig. G4v The L. Mayor, with the rest of your brethren the Aldermen, and the Officers of this Corporation.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §34. 607 The Lord Mayor being Head of the Corporation.
1839 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 2) I. iii. iii. 598 A Branch of the Corporation of the City of London.
1893 Geelong Advertiser 29 Nov. The action was brought under a bye-law of the corporation bearing upon buildings in a ruinous state.
1943 Hull Daily Mail 2 Mar. 3/5 The Bristol Chamber of Commerce had submitted a very concise report of their views to the Corporation of that city.
2019 Times 30 Dec. 24/1 The City of London Corporation, which manages the heath, needs to save £30 million in the next financial year.
3.
a. An incorporated association of workers in the same craft or trade, having the monopoly and control of their particular occupation within a borough or other place; a trade guild or City Company (cf. company n. 5a). Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > group or body of > specific
Hanse1199
staple1423
the feat of merchandisec1503
corporation1530
Stilliardois1552
the Steads1557
galley-man1581
hong1769
1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 87 Ther is a corporacyon made by the auctorite of the Mayre amongst fischmongers wtyn the..towne.
1635 E. Rainbow Labour 40 The greatest of our Common-wealth have inrolled their names into the protection of some Corporation in this City.
1703 London Gaz. No. 4443/3 The several Corporations, or City Companies, marched from their respective Halls.
1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 234 The whole Corporations of Weavers in Silk and Woollen.
1882 Leeds Mercury 17 July 3/1 The Corporation of Cooks were to offer their services to the gentlemen of the press gratis.
1922 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 52 143 It might be useful to those who are interested in the old Trade Corporations of Dublin that up-to-date particulars of the records..should be submitted to the Society.
2007 Urban Hist. 34 76 There were corporations of the drapers, the chandlers, the shipmen and the brewers.
b. A joint association of the employers and employees in a particular industry, or of the members of a particular profession, organized as an organ of political representation in a corporative state. Cf. corporative adj. 2.Originally with reference to Fascist Italy 1925–43.
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1922 Edinb. Rev. July 163 He [sc. Mussolini] advocates ‘co-operation by categories,’ these categories being corporations modelled on the medieval guilds.
1923 Western Times (Exeter) 29 Mar. 6/3 It is proposed to institute ‘a federation of seven corporations,’ which would include metal works, agriculture, industry, commerce, transport, drama, and the intellectual profession.
1956 Times 20 Mar. 9/2 There already exist some 250 guilds in Portugal, but the war held up the formation of the corporations.
2014 Independent Rev. Winter 328 Each corporation, precisely because it was free to determine the conditions of its respective trade or industry, did not need to conform to consumer preferences.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]
ferec975
flockOE
gingc1175
rout?c1225
companyc1300
fellowshipc1300
covinc1330
eschelec1330
tripc1330
fellowred1340
choira1382
head1381
glub1382
partya1387
peoplec1390
conventc1426
an abominable of monksa1450
body1453
carol1483
band1490
compernagea1500
consorce1512
congregationa1530
corporationa1535
corpse1534
chore1572
society1572
crew1578
string1579
consort1584
troop1584
tribe1609
squadron1617
bunch1622
core1622
lag1624
studa1625
brigadea1649
platoon1711
cohort1719
lot1725
corps1754
loo1764
squad1786
brotherhood1820
companionhood1825
troupe1825
crowd1840
companionship1842
group1845
that ilk1845
set-out1854
layout1869
confraternity1872
show1901
crush1904
we1927
familia1933
shower1936
a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1348/2 He [sc. Christ] doth..incorporate all christen folke and hys owne bodye together in one corporacyon mistical.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 324 David [was] a grand preserver of them [sc. Nethinims], who first made them a Corporation.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 117 The most odious, and the most grievous Projects..framed, and executed, by allmost a Corporation of that Religion.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lviii. 565 The corporation of servants are dismissed to bed (not unwilling to go, for they were up all last night).
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a. Law. An incorporated entity with the capacity to act as a legal person, having an identity in law distinct from those of the individual or collection of individuals of which it is comprised at any point in time; (chiefly British) an artificial person created by royal charter or (esp. formerly) prescription, or under an act of the legislature, having its own powers, duties, and liabilities in perpetual succession.In English law, a corporation may be either aggregate, comprising many individuals (as e.g. a joint-stock company, a municipal corporation, or a chartered university), or sole, consisting of a single individual and his or her successors in a particular office or function (e.g. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Crown, or the Governor General of Canada). See also municipal corporation n., eleemosynary corporation.
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society > law > legal capacity > [noun] > legal person > artificial person
body1453
body politic1536
corporation1579
corporalty1603
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > corporation or body corporate
towna1382
body corporate1461
corporation1579
corporalty1603
university1607
individual1828
communitas1841
1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) f. 52 Corporation is a permanent thing yt may haue succession: And is an assembly and ioining together of many into one fellowshipp.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. v. iv. 168/1 If there be any, be he priuate person, or be it corporation.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxiii. §4. 566 The Corporation, or Bodie politike, of the Citizens of Capua.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 177. ⁋10 Some fragment of antiquity, as the seal of an antient corporation.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) xiv. 446 The ‘Santa Casa’ is spoken of by them as a living person, a corporation sole on which the whole city depends.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. Comm. 154 Some Universities have a visible existence in a number of individual members, and are then called Corporations.
1979 Guardian 8 Feb. 9/6 Because the People's Temple was registered as a charitable corporation, its assets..must be dispersed by the State.
2014 Slavonic & East European Rev. 92 45 The cathedral chapter of Vilna remained Lithuania's principal ecclesiastical corporation.
b. spec. (originally U.S.). A company or group of companies authorized to act as a single entity independent of its owners or members and recognized as such in law; (now usually) a large or powerful business organization or conglomerate. Frequently used in the titles of incorporated companies, e.g. the British Broadcasting Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation, Bank of America Corporation, etc.In early use chiefly with reference to joint-stock companies established by charter or under an act of the legislature to conduct business such as the building of canals and railways, the provision of utilities, insurance, banking, and essential manufacturing. Now chiefly denoting large business organizations or conglomerates, typically incorporated by registration.
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1825 (title) An address to the shareholders of the Gas-light and Coke Company, on the financial accounts of that Corporation.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iv. 154 There are several factories in Lowell, each of which belongs to what we should term a Company of Proprietors, but what they call in America a Corporation.
1877 Yorkville (South Carolina) Enquirer 12 Apr. The Atlantic Phosphate Company, one of the most successful large corporations engaged in the manufacture of commerical fertilizers.
1917 (title) Report of the General Motors Corporation for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1917.
1964 Daily Mail 30 Oct. 17/3 Normally, oil company deals go through because the Treasury wants to keep these multi-national corporations headquartered in London.
2021 @ewarren 11 May in twitter.com (accessed 14 May 2021) The American people want a government that works for working families—not billionaires and giant corporations.
6. colloquial. The abdomen, esp. one that is large or protruding; a pot belly or paunch.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of
just wombc1400
paunch?a1425
gorbelly1519
barrel-belly1561
grand paunch1569
pack paunch1582
swag-paunch1611
swag bellya1616
bottle belly1655
paunch-gut1683
pot belly1696
gundy-gut1699
tun-bellya1704
panter1706
corporation1753
pancheon1804
poda1825
bow window1840
pot1868
pus-gut1935
beer belly1942
pussy-gut1949
pot-gut1951
Molson muscle1967
beer gut1976
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxviii. 202 Sirrah! my corporation is made up of good wholsome English fat.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. v. 128 Looming large in full canonicals..with the dignity of an ample corporation.
1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xvii. 10 Eglon was a notable instance that a well-fed corporation is no security to life.
1948 M. Greig Yours Ever iii. 37 He was wearing a cream tussore suit and a bright scarlet cummerbund around his enormous corporation.
1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 July 14 ‘I went completely off my food, although some people said that was a good thing.’ She slaps her ample corporation.
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C1. Chiefly British. As a modifier in sense 2, as in corporation bus, corporation clerk, corporation councillor, corporation land, corporation line, corporation oath, corporation seal, etc.See also corporation limits n., corporation pop n.
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1641 T. Heywood Machiavel sig. D4 The Corporation Proiectors. Were persons that lov'd civill government well, as it seemed, for they sought by Patent to make the whole Suburbs live under rule.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 318 When all Burgesses..are entered into a Corporation by the Corporation Oath or Covenant.
1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 32 This very thing of Corporacion Lands.
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 40 All the family race cups, and corporation bowls.
1841 C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 29 Ist Ward, includes that part of the city, which is between Main street and the corporation line.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 22 Corporation Clerk.
1936 Dundee Courier 22 June 7/7 She was knocked down by a Corporation bus which mounted the pavement in an attempt to avoid colliding with a motor car.
1961 Daily Express 25 Jan. 11/3 Now we are leaving the district tomorrow and I hope to start a job working in a corporation baths.
1996 Financial Times 4 Dec. 10/3 Corporation councillors are expected to approve the extension at a meeting tomorrow following 10 months of consultation.
C2. As a modifier in sense 5b, as in corporation chief, corporation executive, corporation finance, corporation lawyer, corporation management, etc. Originally U.S.See also corporation tax n.
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1878 Scribners Monthly Oct. 897/2 There must come..a change in the principles or policy of corporation management. Corporations must recognize the fact that workmen have souls.
1893 ‘O. Thanet’ Stories Western Town 215 He went away for an interview with the corporation lawyer and the superintendent of the road.
1931 J. T. Adams Epic of Amer. viii. 230 A corporation lawyer building up a merger of competing plants.
1968 Black Panther 2 Nov. 7/1 First, we are told that the Republican Party is the party of big business, that the bankers, oilmen, defense contractors, corporation chiefs, land speculators, etc. all bankroll the Republican Party.
2005 S. Ramo Meetings, Meetings, & more Meetings x. 127 Too many corporation executives have been discovered to have been ignorant of falsified accounting and other illegal operations taking place in their companies.
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Corporation Act n. now historical an Act of Parliament of 1661 requiring all officers of municipal corporations to acknowledge the royal supremacy, to abjure resistance to the king, and to sign a declaration against the Solemn League and Covenant, and making ineligible for public office any person who had not taken communion according to the rites of the Church of England during the previous year.The Corporation Act, originally entitled An Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations, was the first of a group of statutes known collectively as the Clarendon Code, passed in the years following the Restoration of Charles II to strengthen the position of the Church of England (cf. also Act of Uniformity, Conventicle Act (see conventicle n. 4b), Five-mile Act n.). It was repealed in 1828.
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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > concerning religion
Bloody Statutea1648
Five-mile Act1672
Corporation Act1679
test-law1687
Bill of Toleration1692
Test Act1708
Schism Act1733
Schism Bill1733
penal codea1777
Veto Act1835
society > law > types of laws > [noun] > affecting community at large
public bill1579
public act1598
Corporation Act1679
public statute1739
1679 R. Baxter Nonconformists Plea for Peace ix. 159 As in the Corporation Act, the end is the preventing of Rebellion.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi A bill repealing the Corporation Act, which had been passed by the Cavalier Parliament.
1935 Virginia Law Rev. 21 642 Almost as soon as the Corporation Act had passed, interested persons..sought to exempt the dissenters from its burden.
2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Jan. 47/2 In 1828, the year before Catholic Emancipation, the Test and Corporation Acts that excluded Dissenters from public office had been repealed.
corporation dinner n. Chiefly British a formal dinner or ceremonial feast attended by the members of a corporation, esp. the officers of a municipal corporation or city council.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > main meal or dinner
mealeOE
dinnerc1325
dinea1425
Christmas dinner1581
Sunday dinner1602
corporation dinner1732
Russian dinner1805
boiled dinner1823
pickup1848
Robin Dinner1877
course-dinner1895
shore dinner1895
din-din1905
gala dinner1934
TV dinner1952
working dinner1956
steak dinnera1964
1732 Read's Weekly Jrnl. 22 Jan. Besides the usual Opportunities of Taverns, and Private Houses, there are Elections, Fairs, Mayors' Feasts, University Treats, Corporation Dinners, Christmas Regals, Weddings, and Christenings.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. ii. 129 It being their duty to..hunt the markets for delicacies for corporation dinners.
1959 Times 7 Apr. 11/4 All who have read the reports of..the Ebenezer Temperance Association will recall the sad case of a former toastmaster at Corporation dinners.
2015 M. Moore tr. F. Moret End Urban Anc. Regime Eng. v. 208 The charities' money disappeared into the general budget and was used to pay for corporation dinners.
corporation limits n. originally U.S., now chiefly Indian English the boundaries marking the jurisdiction of a city, town, or village council; cf. city limits n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > boundary or boundaries of city
city limits1714
corporation limits1818
1818 Augusta Chron. & Georgia Gaz. 18 Mar. The public attention (within the corporation limits of this place) has been considerably excited.
1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wild iv. 30 When this city was in its glory..the corporation limits were uncommonly extensive.
1948 Circleville (Ohio) Herald 10 Mar. 3/1 The state fairgrounds and the Fairfield County grounds are within the corporation limits of Columbus and Lancaster respectively.
2019 @imkunalroy 24 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 07 Apr. 2021) Bellandur is one of 110 ‘villages’ on the periphery of Bengaluru recently added to the city's corporation limits which does not yet receive piped water.
corporation pop n. English regional (northern) slang water, esp. tap water, as a drink; cf. pop n.1 6, council pop n.
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1932 Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 8/5 All we have to offer you is mineral waters, or that very formidable corporation pop.
1997 rec.drugs.chemistry (Usenet newsgroup) 22 Sept. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 31 May 2017) The tabloid press's insistence that the evils of ecstasy could be countered by a good old splash of corporation pop.
2017 @liteweightlarry 17 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Coconut water is shite for hangovers. I'll stick with corporation pop.
corporation spirit n. the ethos of a body corporate regarded as a norm to which its members are required to conform, esp. in seeking to further the economic and political interests of the group to the detriment of outsiders.In early use chiefly in a negative sense with reference to the anti-competitive economic practices of trade corporations. [after French ésprit de corps (1721 in Montesquieu with allusion to conformist thinking in the Académie française: see further esprit de corps n.)]
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1762 A. Ramsay Ess. Naturalization Foreigners i. 9 in Investigator ii, This exclusive, this persecuting, this corporation spirit seized with great violence upon the English footmen, and gave a beginning to a sort of bellum servile, in the very heart of this great metropolis.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. 187 Even where they [sc. trades in towns] have never been incorporated, yet the corporation spirit, the jealousy of Strangers, the aversion to take apprentices, or to communicate the secret of their trade, generally prevail in them.
1845 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 195 All bodies have their esprit du corps; and woe to the member of a corporation who lacks the corporation spirit! He loses caste at once.
1988 Financial Times 31 Oct. (West Germany Supplement) xii/6 The corporation spirit extends into the inner circles of Mr Kohl's Government.
corporation tax n. †(a) a tax on ownership of land or property payable to the municipal corporation within whose jurisdiction it is located (obsolete); (b) a direct tax on the profits of companies and business organizations; cf. company tax n.
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1778 Public Advertiser 22 June You might well afford a small Corporation Tax upon your Lands and Tenements.
1875 Rep. Commissioners Taxation & Exemption Therefrom (Mass. House of Representatives No. 15) 122 The general corporation tax.
1911 Amer. Year Bk. 1910 326 The President's suggestion was followed, and the corporation tax became law.
1965 New Statesman 16 Apr. 622/2 The corporation tax makes gilt-edged stocks less attractive to some investors.
2014 Oxf. Business Group: Articles (Nexis) Nov. Corporation tax is imposed on the taxable income.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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- man of great livelihood
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