: a group of merchants or traders united in a trade guild (see guildsense 1)
b
: the municipal authorities of a town or city
2
: a body formed and authorized by law to act as a single person although constituted by one or more persons and legally endowed with various rights and duties including the capacity of succession
3
: an association of employers and employees in a basic industry or of members of a profession organized as an organ of political representation in a corporative state
He works as a consultant for several large corporations. a substantial corporation that showed that he was a sucker for all-you-can-eat buffets
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English corporacion "organization into a body politic, an organized body of people," borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French corporacion, borrowed from Late Latin corporātiōn-, corporātiō (Latin, "physical makeup"), from Latin corporāre "to form into a body" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of action nouns — more at corporate