Association vs. Corporation

Associationnoun

The act of associating.

Associationnoun

The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

Associationnoun

(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

Associationnoun

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

Associationnoun

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

Associationnoun

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

Associationnoun

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

Associationnoun

a formal organization of people or groups of people;

Associationnoun

the act of consorting with or joining with others;

Associationnoun

the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;

Associationnoun

the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;

Associationnoun

a relation resulting from interaction or dependence;

Associationnoun

(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

Associationnoun

(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

Corporationnoun

(UK) The municipal governing body of a borough or city, in force since 1974 and obsolete except in the City of London.

Corporationnoun

(historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.

Corporationnoun

A protruding belly; a paunch.

Corporationnoun

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

Corporationnoun

a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state

Corporationnoun

slang terms for a paunch

Corporation

A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law a legal person in legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes. Early incorporated entities were established by charter (i.e.