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 alimentary canal, especially the intestine.

(informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged

beer gut

(uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.

A person's emotional, visceral self.

I have a funny feeling in my gut .

(in the plural) The essential, core parts.

He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.

(in the plural) Ability and will to face up to adversity or unpleasantness.

It took a lot of guts to admit to using banned substances on television.

(informal) A gut course

You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut .

A narrow passage of water.

the Gut of Canso

The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.