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Corporation vs Cult - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between corporation and cult

is that corporation is 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 while cult is a group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.

As an adjective cult is

of, or relating to a cult.

corporation

English

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.

    Derived terms

    * corporate veil * British Broadcasting Corporation

    Related terms

    * corporate

    External links

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    cult

    English

    (wikipedia cult)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity sometimes viewed as a sect, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.
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  • Devotion to a saint.
  • (lb) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

    • Derived terms

    * cargo cult * cultic * cultist

    See also

    * sect

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to a cult.
  • Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
    • a cult horror movie

    Usage notes

    The term has a positive connotation for groups of art, music, writing, fiction, and fashion devotees, but a negative connotation for new religious, extreme political, questionable therapeutic, and pyramidal business groups.

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