incorporation

[ in-kawr-puh-rey-shuhn ]

/ ɪnˌkɔr pəˈreɪ ʃən /

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noun

the act of incorporating or the state of being incorporated.

the act of forming a legal corporation.

Grammar. the inclusion of the object or object reference within the inflected verb form, a type of word-formation frequent in American Indian languages.

Psychoanalysis. the adoption of the views or characteristics of others, occurring in children as part of learning and maturation and in adults as a defense mechanism.

Compare introjection.

Origin of incorporation

1350–1400; Middle English incorporacioun<Late Latin incorporātiōn- (stem of incorporātiō), equivalent to incorporāt(us) (see incorporate¹) + -iōn-ion

OTHER WORDS FROM incorporation

in·ter·in·cor·po·ra·tion, nounpre·in·cor·po·ra·tion, nounre·in·cor·po·ra·tion, noun

Words nearby incorporation

incor., incorporable, incorporate, incorporated, incorporating, incorporation, incorporator, in corpore, incorporeal, incorporeity, incorr.

Example sentences from the Web for incorporation

Making responsibility in society a duty in corporate law will reestablish the legitimacy of incorporation.
50 years later, Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead|jakemeth|September 13, 2020|Fortune
I especially love the incorporation of the little elephant with his tusks duct-taped in the photograph.
Why I Posed Against Prop 8|Meghan McCain|June 19, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The incorporation of banks issuing circulating notes is forbidden.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1|Various
The act of incorporation received the royal assent on May 30, 1855.
Montreal 1535-1914, Volume II (of 2)|William Henry Atherton

Kidwelly received its first charter of incorporation from Henry VI.; its present charter dating from 1618.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 7|Various
How (could this incorporation into a single genus be effected with) the elements of some object and the object itself?
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3|Plotinos (Plotinus)
The one-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Heath, Franklin.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2|Various