{
    "term": "corporation",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large business company",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "multinational corporations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Chrysler corporation"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "giant", "huge"],
                "corporation + noun": ["tax"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an organization or a group of organizations that is recognized by law as a single unit",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "urban development corporations"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "giant", "huge"],
                "corporation + noun": ["tax"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a group of people elected to govern a large town or city and provide public services",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃn/",
                "audio": "co/corporation/corporation__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkɔːrpəˈreɪʃn/",
                "audio": "co/corporation/corporation__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from late Latin corporatio(n-), from Latin corporare ‘combine in one body’, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’."
}