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incorporation

[ in-kawr-puh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of incorporating incorporate or the state of being incorporated. incorporate. incorporated.
  2. the act of forming a legal corporation.
  3. Grammar. the inclusion of the object or object reference within the inflected verb form, a type of word-formation frequent in American Indian languages.
  4. Psychoanalysis. the adoption of the views or characteristics of others, occurring in children as part of learning and maturation and in adults as a defense mechanism.


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Other Words From

  • inter·in·corpo·ration noun
  • prein·corpo·ration noun
  • rein·corpo·ration noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of incorporation1

1350–1400; Middle English incorporacioun < Late Latin incorporātiōn- (stem of incorporātiō ), equivalent to incorporāt ( us ) ( incorporate 1 ) + -iōn -ion

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