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Corporation
Corporation: a legal entity acting as a single fictional person, also called a company or C corp, with separate personality, limited shareholder liability, board governance, double taxation, and veil-piercing limits.
Corporation Bank
Corporation Bank was an Indian public sector bank founded in Udupi, Karnataka, in 1906, operating 2,432 branches before merging into Union Bank of India on 1 April 2020.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), U.S. private nonprofit created by the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act to fund public radio and TV; created NPR in 1970; defunded in 2025 and dissolved January 5, 2026.
Corporatism
Corporatism: a system of interest intermediation where state-licensed peak associations of labor and business hold representational monopolies and bargain tripartitely with the state, contrasting with pluralism; rooted in Catholic social thought, spanning authoritarian 1930s variants and democratic Nordic neo-corporatism.
Corporatocracy
Corporatocracy, also known as corpocracy, is a political system in which corporations wield dominant influence over government policy, with the English East India Company as the paradigm case.
Corps
Corps (corps d'armée): large military formation commanding several divisions at the operational level between division and field army. Formalized by Napoleon on 1 March 1800; today the US Army's preferred joint task force headquarters.
Corps of Army Air Defence
The Corps of Army Air Defence is the Indian Army's combat support arm responsible for air defense against aircraft and missiles, independent since January 1994.
Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City
Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City State (Corpo della Gendarmeria), the Vatican's police force founded 1816 by Pius VII; handles public order, judicial police, and papal transfer security, distinct from the Swiss Guard.
Corps of Gendarmes
The Corps of Gendarmes (Отдельный корпус жандармов) was the military police and political security force of the Russian Empire, created in 1827 and disbanded in 1917.
Corpus Christi Independent School District
Corpus Christi ISD (CCISD) is a large city Texas public school district in Nueces County: 55 campuses, about 32,000 students, a TEA B (83) rating in 2025-26, IB and early college Programs of Choice, and a $368 million 2026-27 budget.
Corpus delicti
Corpus delicti ("body of the crime") is the common law rule that a confession alone cannot support a criminal conviction; independent proof that a crime occurred, and jurisdictional variants like the federal trustworthiness standard, are required.
Corpus Juris Civilis
Corpus Juris Civilis (Corpus Iuris Civilis), the Body of Civil Law: Justinian's 529-534 CE codification of Roman law in four parts (Code, Digest, Institutes, Novels), foundational for European civil law and still partly in force in Southern Africa.
Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics studies language through large text collections (corpora), a methodology rather than a branch of linguistics. Key facts: Brown Corpus (1964) first electronic corpus; direct and indirect language-teaching applications; representativeness debates; recent AI convergence.
Corpus of Contemporary American English
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a free online corpus of about one billion words of American English, 1990 to 2019, created by Mark Davies.
Corpus of South Arabian inscriptions
The corpus of South Arabian inscriptions is the body of printed and digital collections, above all the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique, editing over 15,000 pre-Islamic South Arabian inscriptions.
Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis
Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis (CACDA) is a linguistic method combining corpus tools like keyword and collocation analysis with critical discourse analysis to study ideology and power.
Corrective feedback
Corrective feedback is any signal indicating a learner's error, given by teachers or automated systems so the learner can repair it; oral strategies include recasts, elicitation, and explicit correction.
Corrective Movement (Syria)
Corrective Movement (al-Haraka al-Tashihiyya) is Hafez al-Assad's name for his 13 November 1970 bloodless coup removing Salah Jadid's radical Ba'ath faction; Assad became president in 1971, founding over five decades of Assad family rule in Syria.
Corrective rape
Corrective rape, also called curative rape, is a hate crime of raping lesbian or gender non-conforming people to "cure" their orientation; coined in South Africa, documented especially against black township lesbians, and contested as a term.
Corregidor de indios
The corregidor de indios was a salaried Crown magistrate in Spanish America who governed rural indigenous districts, collecting tribute, administering justice, and organizing forced labor until replaced by intendants in the 1780s.
Corregimiento de indios
The corregimiento de indios was a district of Spanish colonial America governed by a salaried Crown magistrate with judicial and administrative authority over Indian towns and tribute.
Correio Paulistano
Correio Paulistano was a Brazilian newspaper founded in São Paulo in 1854 by Joaquim Roberto de Azevedo Marques, the city's first daily and the third in Brazil, published until 1963.
Correlated equilibrium
A correlated equilibrium is a game theory solution concept introduced by Robert Aumann in 1974 that generalizes Nash equilibrium, can give players higher payoffs, and is computable by linear programming.
Correlation Ventures
Correlation Ventures is a California venture capital firm, founded in 2010, that uses a quantitative model to co-invest in other firms' rounds within two weeks.
Correspondence of Ivan IV and Kurbsky
The Correspondence of Ivan IV and Kurbsky is an exchange of five polemical letters, written between 1564 and 1579, between Tsar Ivan IV and the defected general Prince Kurbsky.
Correspondence of Suppiluliuma and Amenhotep III
The Correspondence of Suppiluliuma and Amenhotep III, also called the Amarna Hittite letters, is a set of four cuneiform tablets sent by Suppiluliuma I of Hatti to Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BC.
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur
The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur is a collection of literary letters between the Ur III kings and their officials, the largest surviving corpus of Sumerian prose.
Correspondence theory of truth
Correspondence theory of truth: the view that truth consists in a relation, typically correspondence to a fact, between propositions and reality. Traced to Aristotle and Aquinas, developed by Russell and Moore, opposed by coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary theories.
Correspondent
A correspondent is a journalist posted away from the home newsroom, especially abroad. Covers foreign and war correspondents, their newspaper origins, embedding, parachute journalism, fixers, and correspondent safety statistics.
Corrie ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom, born Cornelia ten Boom, was a Dutch watchmaker whose family sheltered about 800 Jews in Haarlem during the Nazi occupation; she wrote The Hiding Place.