how to pronounce corporation

/ˌkɔː.pəɹˈɛɪ.ʃən/

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corporation is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of corporation in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese …”

meanings of corporation

noun:

The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
A protruding belly; a paunch.
A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

corporation frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word corporation occurs in english on average 35.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics corporation can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that corporation can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;