Corporation

  • 11Corporation — Corporation. Verbindung physischer Personen zu einer einzigen juristischen Person; das Vermögen gehört ausschließlich ihr; sie allein wird Gläubiger und Schuldner, nicht die Mitglieder (Gemeinden, Gilden, Zünfte, Klöster, Universitäten,… …

    Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • 12Corporation —   [kɔːpə reɪʃn] die, / s, Abkürzung Corp., die auf der Grundlage des Rechts des einzelnen Bundesstaats gebildete Kapitalgesellschaft in den USA, die im Wesentlichen der AG im deutschen Recht entspricht …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 13corporation — CORPORATION. s. f. Association autorisée par la Puissance publique, et formée de plusieurs personnes qui vivent sous une police commune relativement à leur profession. Les Arts et Métiers forment des Corporationsdistinctes …

    Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • 14corporation — /kɔ:pə reiʃn/, it. /korpo reʃon/ s. ingl. [propr. società per azioni , dal lat. tardo corporatio onis ], usato in ital. al femm. (econ.) [persona giuridica che svolge attività economiche] ▶◀ azienda, gruppo, società (per azioni) …

    Enciclopedia Italiana

  • 15corporation — mid 15c., persons united in a body for some purpose, from such use in Anglo Latin, from L.L. corporationem (nom. corporatio), noun of action from corporat , pp. stem of L. corporare to embody (see CORPORATE (Cf. corporate)). Meaning legally… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 16corporation — [n] business organization, usually large association, bunch, business, clan, company, corporate body, crew, crowd, enterprise, gang, hookup*, jungle*, legal entity, megacorp*, mob, multinational, octopus*, outfit, partnership, ring, shell,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 17corporation — ► NOUN 1) a large company or group of companies authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law. 2) Brit. a group of people elected to govern a city, town, or borough …

    English terms dictionary

  • 18Corporation — This article is about business corporations. For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). Corporate redirects here. For the Bollywood film, see Corporate (film). A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity… …

    Wikipedia

  • 19corporation — An artificial person or legal entity created by or under the authority of the laws of a state. An association of persons created by statute as a legal entity. The law treats the corporation itself as a person which can sue and be sued. The… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 20corporation — An artificial person or legal entity created by or under the authority of the laws of a state. An association of persons created by statute as a legal entity. The law treats the corporation itself as a person which can sue and be sued. The… …

    Black's law dictionary