| 单词 | corporation |
| 释义 | corporationWord family noun corporation corporatenesscorporatismcorporatistcorporatoradjective corporate corporativeadverbcorporately Companies, Parliaments cor·po·ra·tion /ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən $ ˌkɔːr-/ ●○○ AWL noun [countableC] 1 BBCCOMPANYa big company, or a group of companies acting together as a single organization 大型公司；企业集团 He works for a large American corporation. 他在一家美国大公司工作。 multinational corporations 跨国公司 the Siemens Corporation 西门子公司 corporation tax (=tax that companies have to pay on their profits) 公司（利润）税 ► see thesaurus at company2 an organization or group of organizations that work together for a particular purpose and are officially recognized as one 法人，法人团体 the New Orleans Citywide Development Corporation 新奥尔良市开发集团 a housing corporation 住房建设集团 3. PGPGOVERENMENT British EnglishBrE old use a group of people elected to govern a town or city 市镇当局；市议会 SYN council Examples from the Corpus corporation• IBM is one of the biggest corporations in the world.• New town development corporations may also be able to assist in the ways described in ii. and iii. above.• Commercial paper is sold by large corporations.• She's just been appointed chief financial officer of a major corporation.• Within modern capitalist societies the monopoly corporations constitute the dominant class fraction.• a multinational corporation• The most distinctive institution of capitalist economies is the privately owned corporation.• And what worked for a partnership proved disastrous in a publicly owned corporation.• Increasing numbers of accounting graduates are working in private corporations.• U.S. corporations sold nearly $6.2 billion in new stock in May -- the highest monthly volume in history.• Within the corporation, George was something of a legend. corporation tax• It will also save Johnson Matthey advance corporation tax and provide funds for expansion.• In such a case the company may face corporation tax arising from the disposal of its chargeable assets.• The slump in profits has limited the scope for corporation tax offsets but economic recovery should help ease the problem.• The firm has to pay 1050 in corporation tax on the balancing charge and 5340 in capital gains tax.• It also offered a complete exemption of corporation tax for 10 years from the start of operations.• Let us now consider the effect of the corporation tax.• However, when the loan is repaid, the company is entitled to a refund of the corporation tax.• Because the money is not subject to corporation tax, the grants are, in effect, worth twice as much. From Longman Business Dictionary corporationcor·po·ra·tion /ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃənˌkɔːr-/ written abbreviation corp. noun [countableC]ORGANIZATIONS 1a large company or group of companies acting together as a single organization the Sony Corporation Mesa has completed its conversion from a partnership to a corporation. 2in Britain, a large company or a public organization → de facto corporation → development corporation → global corporation → multinational corporation → private corporation → public corporation → virtual corporationthe British Steel Corporation the Corporation of the City of London the British Broadcasting Corporation |
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