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 Word Forms

• interincorporation noun
• preincorporation noun
• reincorporation 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

These traits made the state the one-stop shop for major company incorporations—which have brought in more than $1 billion in annual revenue to the state.

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This patent-pending technology purifies the isotope by removing it from the bismuth target and then loads it onto a shipping column for incorporation into targeted alpha therapy drugs.

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Its incorporation in wildlife programmes is now an inevitability, according to the producers.

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But Mr. Parker’s incorporation of clubby rhythms suggests neither mind-expansion nor hedonism but rather mathematical precision.

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Also, some drugs in late stages of development or under regulatory review are now being debated because of FDA leadership changes, with the incorporation of a new benefit/risk framework.

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Related Words

• unification 
• unionization