corporations
- 1Plural of corporation.
Multinational corporations often shift profits across borders to reduce their tax bills.
The new regulations require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions annually.
Note
The plural is entirely regular: a plain -s joins an unchanged stem, and the possessive is written corporations'. It can count any of the singular's meanings: legal bodies with powers distinct from their members, the municipal governing bodies of boroughs and cities, or the historical employer-worker associations of Fascist Italy. The City of London's Corporation is a name, and a name stays singular.
corporations is a form of corporation
corporation, noun: A legally created body that exists independently of its members, with powers and liabilities separate from theirs. Full entry
- Forms
- corporationcorporations plural
- Spelling
- corporation → corporations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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