corporation
Plural: corporations
Noun
- a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state
- slang for a paunch
- 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.
- The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
- In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
- A protruding belly.
Origin / Etymology
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.
(protruding belly): Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.
Scrabble Score: 15
corporation: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcorporation: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
corporation: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 18
corporation: valid Words With Friends Word