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corporation

[kawr-puh-ray-shuhn] / ˌkɔr pəˈreɪ ʃən /


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"There is certainly no corporation tax to recover. Football clubs lose money and City would have lost more money had it not been for the activities it undertook."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The firms downsize staff and sell off parts of the purchased company to create dividends, all while charging the purchased corporation management fees for their trouble.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The corporate fight won’t just be tech versus tech, but tech versus every major corporation that sells to consumers.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

The South Korean government this year created a state-run corporation charged with evaluating potential U.S. investments for their commercial viability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Under Hoover, agents were now seen as interchangeable cogs, like employees in a large corporation.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Some people—including former President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich—use closely held S corporations to avoid the tax on some of their income.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

So yeah, I have enough to let a year drift, but I don’t know how to gauge or judge getting back into the club, the business, because corporations are frightened.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Bilal said faith in politics, government and corporations is not high among his peers, but he’s trying to grow a network of young people to cultivate and support future leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

They are not doing high-profile sabotage of corporations; they are not shooting it out in the coal mines.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Despite their having no real bodies, the American legal system treats corporations as legal persons, as if they were flesh-and-blood human beings.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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