0 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.
1 the organization in a particular town or city that is responsible for services such as cleaning roads:
a municipal corporation
2 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.
3 a large company, or a group of companies that are controlled as a single organization:
4 in the UK, a public organization:
The film peeks behind the scenes of a multinational corporation.
Another interesting example is transitive ownership and control of corporations.
In addition, the record reveals that mortgagees could be both land corporations and private persons.
Managers usually design and oversee these roles and responsibilities in corporate organisations, multinational corporations and state-owned enterprises, where ownership is separated from control.
Even under limited liability, therefore, shareholders of corporations that take greater risks will be "penalized" with higher interest rates on corporate borrowing.
A more intimate term is needed to describe the persons whose acts are attributed to the corporation.
Second, the large corporations initiated new mass production techniques that destroyed the market value of the craft skills upon which the union shop strategy depended.
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