Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.

    інкорпора́ціяinkorporácija

    including by incorporating

  2. (countable, uncountable)The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.

    After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.

    consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body

  4. (countable, uncountable)The act of creating a corporation.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A body incorporated; a corporation.

  6. (countable, uncountable)A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

    Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. I feel that the incorporation of sex education in schools is a great step forward.

  2. The articles of incorporation have finally been completed for our Digital Groove Club.

  3. The incorporation of the Kabyle dialect into a standardized Berber language in Algeria is advancing linguistic unity.

Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act of incorporating:

Origin

From Middle English incorporacioun, from Old French incorporacion, from Late Latin incorpo

From Middle English incorporacioun, from Old French incorporacion, from Late Latin incorporatio. By surface analysis, incorporate + -ion.

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Forms

plural: incorporations
Singularincorporation
Pluralincorporations

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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