corporation
n. 公司, 合作, 法人团体 [法] 法人团体, 社团, 法人
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教材释义与例句
公司；法人（团体）；社团；大腹便便；市政当局
a big company, or a group of companies acting together as a single organization
He works for a large American corporation.
他在一家美国大公司工作。
multinational corporations
跨国公司
the Siemens Corporation
西门子公司
释义与例句
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A body corporate, 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 of its members.
股份有限公司
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The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
市政厅
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In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
协会
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A protruding belly.
过时 幽默 俚语'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'
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From Middle English corporacion, corporation, from Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate. (protruding belly): Perhaps a play on the word corpulence.
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