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单词 corporation
释义
corporationcor‧po‧ra‧tion /ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən $ ˌkɔːr-/ ●○○ AWL noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a multinational corporation
  • IBM is one of the biggest corporations in the world.
  • She's just been appointed chief financial officer of a major corporation.
  • U.S. corporations sold nearly $6.2 billion in new stock in May -- the highest monthly volume in history.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And what worked for a partnership proved disastrous in a publicly owned corporation.
  • Commercial paper is sold by large corporations.
  • Increasing numbers of accounting graduates are working in private corporations.
  • New town development corporations may also be able to assist in the ways described in ii. and iii. above.
  • The most distinctive institution of capitalist economies is the privately owned corporation.
  • Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.
  • Within the corporation, George was something of a legend.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
an organization that makes or sells something, or provides a service: · big oil companies· telephone companies· He runs a software company.
a company, especially one that provides a service rather than producing goods: · a law firm· a firm of accountants· a security firm
a company – often used when talking about a company that employs only a small number of people: · She set up her own catering business.· small businesses· a family business
a large company that often includes several smaller companies: · IBM is one of the biggest corporations in the world.
a very large company with offices in many different countries: · American multinationals are establishing research and development facilities across the developing world.
a very large company that consists of several different companies which have joined together: · The company was taken over by a German media conglomerate.
a word used mainly by newspapers for a very large company: · Their clients include the retail giant, Wal-Mart.
a company that is owned by a larger company: · The company runs its New York operations through a US subsidiary.
Longman Language Activatora very big company
: multinational company/corporation/business a very large company that has offices or factories in many different countries: · The recording business is now controlled by multinational corporations.
a large company that employs a lot of people, especially one that includes several smaller companies: · IBM is one of the biggest corporations in the world.· U.S. corporations sold nearly $6.2 billion in new stock in May -- the highest monthly volume in history.
a very large business organization that consists of several different companies which have joined together: · A vast American conglomerate has announced plans to buy the site at a cost of well over a billion dollars.· In the mid-1980s the big financial conglomerates muscled into the market.· The German media conglomerate Kronstadt AG reported record earnings last year.
WORD SETS
associated company, nounboardroom, nounBros., cartel, nounchain, nounCo., collective, nouncom, concern, nounconglomerate, nouncontractor, nounco-op, nouncooperative, adjectivecooperative, nounCorp., corporate, adjectivecorporation, noundivision, noundivisional, adjectiveempire, nounenterprise, nounexecutive, adjectiveexpand, verbexpansion, nounfail, verbgiant, noungroup, nounInc., incorporated, adjectiveindie, nounindustrial espionage, nounin-house, adjectiveinside, adverbinterest, nounjoint-stock company, nounlimited company, nounLtd, Messrs, multinational, adjectivemultinational, nounnewspaper, nounoutsourcing, nounparent company, nounpayroll, nounplc, nounpractice, nounprofit and loss account, nounproprietary, adjectivepty, public company, nounpublic corporation, nounpublic limited company, nounreceivership, nounregistered office, nounshipper, nounsubsidiary, nounsupplier, nountakeover, nountop-heavy, adjective
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
(=tax that companies have to pay on their profits)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· In big corporations it is not possible just to fire some one.· Would die working in a big corporation.· The accountant called his fellow accountants over at the big corporation.· The big corporations, fearing their royalties would disappear down a Web plughole, ganged together to sue Napster.· In this drama, the overzealous junior exec in the big corporation is named Jim Profit.· Most of these people are conscious of the dangers posed by the growth of big corporations.· Kweisi Mfume, a five-term congressman from Baltimore, plans to push big corporations to make more purchases from black-owned concerns.
· There are also bargains which interlock all these with foreign corporations, foreign governments and the international organisations.· Indeed, hundreds of foreign corporations in Hong Kong have shifted assets to other regions, spreading their risk.· S.-domiciled subsidiaries of foreign corporations and by foreigners who are legal residents of the United States.· The Malays controlled 4 percent. Foreign corporations held most of the rest.
· A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation.· In industry after industry, giant corporations were seeking national markets -- and often, monopolies.· These giant corporations may simply opt for law evasion.· But the influential position of giant corporations varies significantly from industry to industry.
· Surely the great corporations had done something right and were worthy of great respect.· Railroads had become the first great national corporations.· He was personally proud of being a part of that great corporation.· Maybe you like the idea of working for a great corporation or a wonderful small business in your hometown.
· Likewise large business corporations were often badly structured and sometimes plainly fraudulent.· It is important to realise that the law-breaking of large businesses and corporations can have severe consequences.· CEOs of very large corporations may have the use of private aircraft.· The main targets would be large corporations with online business-to-business activities.· We sought out people who had been laid off from large corporations and were forced to create new lives.· Currently, Televisa is the largest communications corporation in the developing world.· In very large corporations, some traveling to subsidiary firms and to customer accounts may be necessary.
· Among the mine-owning companies involved are major corporations such as Du Pont and General Dynamics.· For the last twenty-five years, the major corporations in the United States have been getting smaller.· Genesis meanwhile have netted more than £200 million with mainstream pop songs and sponsorship from major corporations.· Chief executive officers of major corporations lose their jobs at rates never before seen.· Loans provided are generally secured by proven oil reserves or guarantees received from any major oil corporation partner in the venture.· Many major corporations offer leadership development courses.· But it has attracted the interest, and investments, of major corporations.· Affirmative action programs were the remedy of major institutions and corporations.
· The implication drawn from the trade is that modern corporations lack an adequate system of accountability.· No criticism attaches to the effort of the modern corporation to minimize risk.· The modern corporation was founded on the principle of expediency.· What is the best way to organize a modern corporation?· It is interesting to note the difference in standing at law between the modern corporation and the modern trade union.· Both democracy and the modern corporation had dealt crippling blows.· The modern large corporation resists this by its advertising.
· As vital to a painting, building or symphony as to a multinational trading corporation or the kitchen of a domestic house.· These are the systems that handle accounting at multinational corporations, airline reservations, insurance and banking transactions and stock trades.· The most relevant feature is the high proportion of multinational corporations in Britain.· This cover technique is used by multinational corporations.· Are we sovereign in defence, in our dealings with multinational corporations or in any significant matter?· It looked more suitable for a multinational corporation than for a great Department of State.· Banks also make other currency advances to traders, multinational corporations and sovereign governments.· There is considerable evidence to show that manufacturing in multinational corporations has been reorganized along the lines described above.
· The Dodgers are the nonprofit corporation....· His nonprofit corporation, Working Arts, took over responsibility for the center when the symphony board filed for bankruptcy last year.· Paul, Minnesota, created half a dozen private, nonprofit corporations to redevelop the city.· Coney, a tenants rights activist, worked with the city to create a tenant-owned nonprofit corporation.· Paul and Minneapolis created a nonprofit corporation to finance low-income housing.· In nonprofit corporations, the board of trustees fulfills the same role.· The two would be run at existing locations by a nonprofit corporation, with its own management and governing board.
· Where a government body seeks an injunction against a private individual or corporation, the position may be different.· Paul, Minnesota, created half a dozen private, nonprofit corporations to redevelop the city.· They lent too much too easily to unstable third world countries, private corporations built on sand and risky clients.· Increasing numbers of accounting graduates are working in private corporations.· The trend is not limited to the individual consumer. Private corporations and government are also getting into the act.· Smith said he wants private corporations to get involved in tuberculosis prevention.· War-time controls were removed; railroads and shipping returned to private corporations.· Columbia was created by a private corporation, not a public organization.
· Privatization of public corporations has become a major feature of Conservative policy.· The courts have long held that partners in private partnerships have greater obligations to each other than do shareholders in public corporations.· Mr Simmons said firms waited an average of 81 days for payment from larger companies and public corporations.· Co. surmounted a similar set of challenges when it moved from a partnership to a public corporation.· This is partly due to the privatization programme which has been implemented in recent years and has reduced the number of public corporations.· A public corporation managing a monopoly might do so in a sectional interest.· The beneficiaries included teachers in higher education, bureaucrats, trade union leaders, welfare organizers, and leaders of public corporations.
· The transnational corporation enters the scene when sellers, intermediaries and buyers are parts of the same global organization.· But the vehicle itself is the mighty transnational corporation.
NOUN
· Likewise large business corporations were often badly structured and sometimes plainly fraudulent.· These figures correctly suggest that our economy is highly industrialized, characterized by gigantic business corporations in its manufacturing industries.· In contrast, business corporations find it very hard to have alternative objectives.· Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases to the breaking point.· Unlike partnerships in which the partners decide policy, in the business corporation the equity owners relinquished their privilege in favour of the directors.· Unlike a business corporation or labor union, a charity may not sponsor or support a political action committee.
· That was most graphically illustrated when Sheffield was arguing about an urban development corporation.· New town development corporations may also be able to assist in the ways described in ii. and iii. above.· The imposition of councillor Jeff Sainsbury says much about the right hon. Gentleman and about the unrepresentative character of the development corporation.· In the New Towns special development corporations provide public housing.· The community development corporation is legally incorporated and financed from various sources and runs an economic development programme.· Some hon. Members from Newcastle and Teesside have nothing but ill to say about development corporations.
· In the 1980s the Chancellor reduced the rate of corporation tax companies paid but also reduced the allowances on new investment.· The firm has to pay 1050 in corporation tax on the balancing charge and 5340 in capital gains tax.· All employers who meet childcare costs can set these off against their liability for corporation tax.· It also offered a complete exemption of corporation tax for 10 years from the start of operations.· However, when the loan is repaid, the company is entitled to a refund of the corporation tax.· The same is true of corporation tax, paid by firms on company profits.· The company's corporation tax liability is due on 1 October 1995 and its returns and accounts by 31 December 1995.· The plaintiff was assessed to corporation tax for accounting periods covering the years 1977 to 1985.
VERB
· Large ranches are often owned by corporations or wealthy individuals who have the cash to survive a downturn.· Getting money out of the business poses problems for people who own corporations.· And what worked for a partnership proved disastrous in a publicly owned corporation.· FMOs, whose formation will be encouraged under the legislation, are privately owned corporations.· Many people who own corporations try to treat them-selves as independent contractors to their own companies.· They now own a corporation, Ramsey-Gerlich Enterprises, but their business still remains little more than a concept.· Certain trusts that benefit individuals may also own stock in S corporations.· And other S corporations may own stock in S corporations as long as they own all of the stock.
· The firm has to pay 1050 in corporation tax on the balancing charge and 5340 in capital gains tax.· From a cash-flow standpoint, that is less costly than actually paying your corporation an additional $ 200 in interest.· The highly paid, like the corporations that employ them, are mobile, and can play one state off against another.· This is the net dividend yield because the firm has already paid corporation tax on its earnings.· Governments would have had to remove many of the regulations which protect us, and pay the corporations vast amounts in compensation.· Joint-venture companies must pay corporation tax.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnouncorporationadjectivecorporate
1a big company, or a group of companies acting together as a single organization:  He works for a large American corporation. multinational corporations the Siemens Corporationcorporation tax (=tax that companies have to pay on their profits)► see thesaurus at company2an organization or group of organizations that work together for a particular purpose and are officially recognized as one:  the New Orleans Citywide Development Corporation a housing corporation3 British English old use a group of people elected to govern a town or city SYN  council
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