corporation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌkɔː.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/    美 /ˌkɔɹ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/|/ˌkɔɹ.pɚˈeɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
    — That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
  2. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
  3. In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives. historical
  4. A protruding belly. dated,humorous,slang
    — [The Rector], looming large in full canonicals, walking, as became a beneficed priest, under the canopy of a shovel-hat, with the dignity of an ample corporation, the embellishment of the squarest and vastest of black coats, and the support of the stoutest of gold-headed canes.

词形变化

corporations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
agricorporation anticorporation bancorporation B corporation benefit corporation C corporation corporation aggregate corporational corporation bus corporation law corporation lawyer corporation pop corporation sole corporation tax corporationwide crown corporation cybercorporation decorporation de facto corporation Delaware corporation eleemosynary corporation intercorporation megacorporation municipal corporation noncorporation owners corporation quasi corporation S corporation shell corporation sole corporation subcorporation supercorporation
相关词
corporate incorporate

词源

From Middle English corporacion, corporation, from Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate. By surface analysis, corporate + -ion.
(protruding belly): Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.
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