in·cor·po·ra·tion

[in-kawr-puh-rey-shuhn]
noun
1.
the act of incorporating or the state of being 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.
Compare introjection.


Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English incorporacioun < Late Latin incorporātiōn- (stem of incorporātiō), equivalent to incorporāt(us) (see incorporate1) + -iōn -ion

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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Incorporation is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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incorporate1
 
vb
1.  to include or be included as a part or member of a united whole
2.  to form or cause to form a united whole or mass; merge or blend
3.  to form (individuals, an unincorporated enterprise, etc) into a corporation or other organization with a separate legal identity from that of its owners or members
 
adj
4.  combined into a whole; incorporated
5.  formed into or constituted as a corporation
 
[C14 (in the sense: put into the body of something else): from Late Latin incorporāre to embody, from Latin in-² + corpus body]
 
in'corporative1
 
adj
 
incorpo'ration1
 
n

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Example sentences
At the same time, the incorporation of satellite-positioning technology into
  mobile phones and cars could open the floodgates.
Yet, village officials continue to collect tax revenue from the state based on
  the town's population at incorporation.
He owned many corporations, yet his name did not appear on the papers of
  incorporation.
Incorporation with limited liability is a privilege.
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