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

Example Sentences

It’s not a one-piece leather design, because of the incorporation of Cordura around the collar, but the combo makes the Sypes as flexible and nimble as some trail running shoes.

From Outside Online

The Shawn Mendes bowl is not pretending to have emerged as “organically” in the marketing sense, but more in the food sense, given its incorporation of Chipotle’s recently introduced cauliflower rice.

From Vox

“This might be setting up that bone for its eventual incorporation into the hearing mechanism of these early tetrapods,” Lemberg says.

From Popular-Science

The linchpin is digital transformation—the incorporation of modern technologies into an organization’s processes or strategies to achieve business goals.

From MIT Technology Review

Making responsibility in society a duty in corporate law will reestablish the legitimacy of incorporation.

From Fortune

I especially love the incorporation of the little elephant with his tusks duct-taped in the photograph.

From The Daily Beast

The place was used as a lock-up for some time after the incorporation, and the old irons were kept on show for years.

From Project Gutenberg

There ought to be complete incorporation, if such incorporation be possible.

From Project Gutenberg

Johnnie Bones prepared the papers for the incorporation of the new railroad, and the organization was perfected.

From Project Gutenberg

The Act of Incorporation empowered the detectors to take and to administer to their servants an oath of fidelity.

From Project Gutenberg

It arose out of the treaty of 1814 for the incorporation of the Belgian provinces with Holland.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• unification
• unionization