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incorporation

[in-kawr-puh-rey-shuhn]

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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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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