corporation
Definition 1
Firm that meets certain legal requirements to be recognized as having a legal existence, as an entity separate and distinct from its owners. Corporations are owned by their stockholders (shareholders) who share in profits and losses generated through the firm's operations, and have three distinct characteristics (1) Legal existence: a firm can (like a person) buy, sell, own, enter into a contract, and sue other persons and firms, and be sued by them. It can do good and be rewarded, and can commit offence and be punished. (2) Limited liability: a firm and its owners are limited in their liability to the creditors and other obligors only up to the resources of the firm, unless the owners give personal-guaranties. (3) Continuity of existence: a firm can live beyond the life spans and capacity of its owners, because its ownership can be transferred through a sale or gift of shares.
Definition 2
Municipal authority of a town or city.
Definition 3
A very large, usually diversified, firm.
corporation is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.
corporation appears in the definitions of the following terms:
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back-end system,
tender offer,
Russell indexes [or indices],
articles of incorporation,
BASIC,
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