corporation
part of speech
noun (a corporation, corporations)
meaning for a pupil
1) A corporation is a large company or group of companies that is treated by law as one body. tree →
2) (UK) A corporation can be a group of people who run a town or city, the town council. tree →
3) (old-fashioned, humorous) A corporation was a big round belly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and news, big corporations make cars, phones and food. In geography, they run factories around the world. In the UK, the BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation. In maths word problems, corporations have profits and workers to count.
examples
- He works for a large corporation. tree →
- The BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. tree →
- Some corporations have offices in many countries. tree →
- The city corporation cleans the streets. tree →
- The corporation made a profit last year. tree →
- A corporation is owned by its shareholders. tree →
- John ran as hard as he could into the town, and found the mayor and corporation. tree →
note
Plural «corporations». Adjective «corporate». A corporation can own things and be taken to court as if it were one person.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «corporation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.