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Gang is a related term of corporation.


As nouns the difference between gang and corporation

is that gang is a gang, a team, a group while 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.

gang

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gangen, from (etyl) . Ultimately: related to etym. 2, see below.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To go; walk; proceed.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gang, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch gang, Icelandic gangur, Norwegian gang ("hallway"), Old Norse gangr (passage, hallway).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A going, journey; a course, path, track.
  • * 1840 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Woodnotes I":
    • In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang
  • * 1869 , Papa André , Once a Week, page 418/1:
    • That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon'' ganger'', to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days.
  • * 1895 , Frederick Tupper Jr., Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl , Modern Language Association of America, page 229:
    • Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies.
  • A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
    • the Gashouse Gang
    The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.
  • A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.
    • a gang''' of sailors; a railroad '''gang .
  • (US) A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
    • a youth gang'''; a neighborhood '''gang'''; motorcycle '''gang .
  • A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit, or a group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
    • the Winter Hill gang'''; the '''Gang of Four.
    Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.
  • (US) A chain gang.
  • A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
    • a gang''' of saws; a '''gang of plows.
  • A set; all required for an outfit.
    • a new gang of stays.
  • (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
    • an outlet gang''' box; a double '''gang switch.
  • (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
    • a gang of wires
    Do a drop for the telephone gang''', then another drop for the internet '''gang , both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.
  • (mining) The mineral substance which encloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
    • Derived terms
    * anti-gang * chain gang * gang bang * gang box * gang-buster * gangboard * gang-cask * gangdom * gangland * gangplank * gang rape * gangsman * gang switch * gangster * gang up * gang up on * gangway * ingang * outgang * street gang * umgang * upgang

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To band together as a group or gang.
    • "Let's gang up on them."

    See also

    *

    Etymology 3

    See (gan).

    Verb

    • English collective nouns ----

    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

    Related terms

    * corporate

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