Noun

(en noun)

A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

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In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.

(slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.

* 1918 , (Katherine Mansfield), ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories , Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:

'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation .'

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 316:

He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

Noun

(en-noun)

the act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.

* 1919: Robert W. Chambers, In Secret

Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination , no single head for all these agencies.

the resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization

* 1900: Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country

We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other.

the ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.

I'm terrible at sports -- I have no coordination .

(possibly archaic) the state of being equal in rank or power.

* c. 1833: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute coordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices.

(grammar) an equal joining together two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and'', ''or'', or ''but .

(chemistry) The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound