incorporation

[ in-kawr-puh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of incorporating incorporate or the state of being incorporated. incorporate. 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.

Other Words From

• inter·in·corpo·ration noun
• prein·corpo·ration noun
• rein·corpo·ration noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of incorporation¹

1350–1400; Middle English incorporacioun < Late Latin incorporātiōn- (stem of incorporātiō ), equivalent to incorporāt ( us ) ( incorporate ¹ ) + -iōn -ion

Related Words

• unification
• unionization