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corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and r ...
is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (
legal person
In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on. The reason for ...
) and recognized as such in law. Commercial corporations can take many forms, including
statutory corporation
A statutory corporation is a government entity created as a statutory body by statute. Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction, thus, they are statutes owned by a government or controlled by national or sub-national government to the (in ...
s,
corporations sole,
joint-stock companies,
cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...
s and others.
The term is also part of the expression
municipal corporation
A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally owne ...
used only in formal contexts to refer to local governing bodies, although these are not commercial entities.
Corporation may also refer to:
Education, establishments and organisations
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Harvard Corporation, AKA "the Corporation"
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Corporation (nightclub)
Corporation, often referred to as Corp by locals, is an independent live music venue and nightclub located in the city centre of Sheffield, England. In addition to hosting live music from touring bands, Corporation hosts club nights which play ...
, nightclub in Sheffield, England
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The Corporation, Cardiff, public house in Wales
* "The Corporation", a press moniker for the Cuban-American criminal organization led by
José Miguel Battle Sr.
Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (September 14, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was a policeman and Cuban exile who served in the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow the communist Cuban regime in 1961. He later became the nominal leader and founder ...
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The Corporation (professional wrestling), late 1990s villainous stable in the World Wrestling Federation
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Yale Corporation, AKA "the Corporation"
Film
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''Corporation'' (TV series), 1975 Canadian television documentary series
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''The Corporation'' (2003 film), 2003 Canadian documentary
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''The Corporation'' (2012 film), Argentine film
Literature
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Corporation (comics), fictional organization in the Marvel Universe
*The Corporation, fictional mercenary organization in Clive Cussler's ''
Oregon Files'' novels
Games
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''Corporation'' (role playing game)
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''Corporation'' (video game)
Music
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The Corporation (record production team), group of American songwriters and record producers in the 1960s Motown label
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The Corporation (American band)
The Corporation were an American, psychedelic rock band, active in the 1960s.
History
The Corporation formed in 1968, when the Kondos brothers joined up with members of a band called Eastern Mean Time, and they started appearing at the Galaxy Club ...
, an American, psychedelic rock band, active in the 1960s
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The Corporation (English band)
The Corporation was an English pop group that was active in the 1980s and formed by musicians previously in popular, hit making, English bands of the 1960s.
Career
The group consisted of Tony Crane (of The Merseybeats), Clem Curtis (of The ...
, English, all-star, pop group who released a single in 1988
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"Corporation" (song), a song by Jack White
See also
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City of London Corporation, the municipal governing body of the City of London in England
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Corporate (disambiguation)
Corporate may refer to either
* A corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of ...
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Corporation (feudal Europe)
In feudal Europe, a corporation (from the Latin , a body)
The Early History of the Corporation in England,
Author: Harold J. Laski,
Source: Harvard Law Review , Apr., 1917, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Apr., 1917), pp. 561-588 Published by: The Harvard L ...
, an aggregation of business interests into a single legal body
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Corporation Bank, former state-owned banking company, India
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Corporation Building
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and r ...
, Sydney, Australia
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Corporation Park, Blackburn, England
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Corporation Street, Birmingham, England
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Corporatism, the economic system
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The Corp or Students of Georgetown, Inc., student-owned non-profit organization at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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