0 a large company or group of companies that is controlled together as a single organization: --
She didn't want to work for a big corporation where everything was so impersonal.
the British Broadcasting Corporation
a multinational corporation
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: --
She was elected to the board of directors of the corporation.
multinational corporations
3 a large company, or a group of companies that are controlled as a single organization: --
4 in the UK, a public organization: --
On the one hand, government corporations and corporate look-alikes have always existed.
Private and especially corporate sponsors might be courted, and once a sponsor is found, the corporation's products would be advertised in a well-publicised exhibition.
Here advocates of corporate responsibilities would hold that those ties justify special duties on the corporation.
Analysis concentrates on international standards set at multiple international meetings mainly by multinational actors, whether corporations, professional groups or others.
In several areas, the civic corporations had the right to participate in political decision-making and therefore had to be consulted by the city council.
In contrast, the corporations operating private prisons inflict sanctions whose severity is determined by the state.
Beside that, the corporation would help the rich people to transform some of their houses into ward hospital for the family members.
Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.
