单词 | corporate individual |
释义 | > as lemmascorporate individual c. A group or body of people regarded as a single entity; spec. a corporation. Frequently with specifying adjective, as corporate individual. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > corporation or body corporate towna1382 body corporate1461 corporation1579 corporalty1603 university1607 individual1828 communitas1841 1828 Cases House of Lords on Appeal from Courts of Scotl.1824 II. 416 The creditors under the sequestration form a corporate individual, who has, in the first place, acquired the debtor's whole existing funds. 1837 Amer. Monthly Mag. Sept. 224 A corporation is a sort of legal individual, which the States by general consent, and Congress by assumption, have power to create. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. vi. 53 It makes no difference whether the individual be a numerical unit, or an aggregate unit, as a partnership, company, or corporation of traffickers. 1903 L. F. Ward Pure Sociol. xx. 548 All collective action must be regarded as the action of a unit or collective individual pursuing ends that are its own. 1977 Times 18 June 12/6 The marks devised for groups of Austrian and German craftsmen—corporate individuals, as it were—are also excellent. 2011 L. Westra Human Rights iii. vii. 248 It would be extremely hard to bring home the responsibility for these results to either corporate individuals or complicit governments. < as lemmas |
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