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Word entry · 11 letters

corporation

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"Legal business body"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /ˌkɔː.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted acinoooprrtStarts with CEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. slang for a paunch

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • With his twin notes, Mr. Musk waded directly into a fractious debate over the right way for corporations to bring workers back to the office during the coronavirus pandemic.
  • 'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'
  • He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

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