Corporation

  • 21Corporation — A legal person that is separate and distinct from its owners. A corporation is allowed to own assets, incur liabilities, and sell securities, among other things. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * corporation cor‧po‧ra‧tion… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 22corporation — A legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners. A corporation is allowed to own assets, incur liabilities ( liability), and sell securities, among other things. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary An entity created by or under the… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 23corporation — corporational, adj. /kawr peuh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. an association of individuals, 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… …

    Universalium

  • 24corporation — n. 1) to establish, form, set up a corporation 2) to manage, run a corporation 3) to dissolve a corporation 4) (BE) a public corporation 5) a multinational corporation * * * [ˌkɔːpə reɪʃ(ə)n] form run a corporation set up a corporation (BE) a… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 25Corporation — Une corporation, dont le mot vient du latin corporari (se former en corps), ou plus exactement un corps, est une personne morale, en général de droit public, instituée par une loi. Ses composantes sont toutes des personnes physiques et/ou morales …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 26corporation — An artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law; an association of persons to whom the sovereign has offered a franchise to become an artificial juridical person, with a name of its own, under which they can… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 27Corporation — A legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners. Corporations enjoy most of the rights and responsibilities that an individual possesses; that is, a corporation has the right to enter into contracts, loan and borrow money, sue and be …

    Investment dictionary

  • 28corporation — (as used in expressions) Exxon Mobil Corporation International Business Machines Corporation Music Corporation of America Japan Broadcasting Corporation Reconstruction Finance Corporation Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 29corporation —    A legal structure authorized by state law that allows a business to organize as a separate legal entity from its owners as an artificial person. As such, it can enter into contracts, sue and be sued, issue shares to raise funds, and do the… …

    Business law dictionary

  • 30CORPORATION — n. f. Réunion de personnes qui forment un corps. Les membres d’une corporation. Entrer dans une corporation. Autrefois il désignait une Association formée de plusieurs personnes astreintes à de certaines obligations relativement à leur profession …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)