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Corporation vs Municipal - What's the difference?

corporation | municipal |

As nouns the difference between corporation and municipal

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 municipal is (finance) a financial instrument issued by a municipality.

As a adjective municipal is

of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).

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.
  • *
  • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
  • 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

    municipal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
  • Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.
  • Synonyms

    * civic

    Derived terms

    * municipality

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 21, author=Julie Connelly, title=Muni Bonds, Safe With High Yields, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=“This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.}}