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CORP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state

Synonyms:

corp; corporation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("corp" is a kind of...):

business firm; firm; house (the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments)

Domain member category:

zero-coupon bond; zero coupon bond (a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security)

redemption (repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock))

dead hand; mortmain (real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation))

event planner (someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials))

case study (a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure)

judgement in personam; judgment in personam; personal judgement; personal judgment (a judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages)

greenmail ((corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corp"):

conglomerate; empire (a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization)

large cap (a corporation with a large capitalization)

small cap (a corporation with a small capitalization)

close corporation; closed corporation; private corporation; privately held corporation (a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market)

closely held corporation (stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few shareholders who have no plans to sell)

shell corporation; shell entity (a company that is incorporated but has no assets or operations)

FDIC; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions)

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; FHLMC; Freddie Mac (a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages)

Fannie Mae; Federal National Mortgage Association; FNMA (a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages)

Boy Scouts of America (a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training)

Credits

 Context examples: 

At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)