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| Domain | Definition |
Economics | 1. A business corporation with shares traded among the general public, such as through a stock exchange. 2. Also, an instrumentality of the state, founded and owned by the public interest, supported by public funds, and governed by those deriving their authority from the state. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is not the same thing as a publicly traded company sometimes known as a public company. In the United States examples of public corporations are Amtrak and the United States Postal Service. Generally speaking a public corporation is created by a statute passed by a legislature which specifically empowers the corporation to undertake a specific public purpose. In Commonwealth countries the name given to public corporations is usually Crown corporation. The notable exception is both the State-Owned Enterprise and Crown entity in New Zealand. Examples of Crown corporations include the CBC in Canada and Air Canada before it was privatized. In Japan, Japan Post is a public corporation. JR, NTT and Japan Tobacco were created after they were privatized.
See also stock exchange, stock market, public company.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Public corporation."
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In May 1999, Telecom Italia, then a public corporation with 96.4 percent of its capital in the stock market, was bought by Olivetti, the information technology and telecommunications company, via a public offer that ended in Olivetti assuming control of 51 percent of Telecom Italia through its subsidiary Tecnost. (references) | |
Economic History | Greece | ERT S.A.--a public corporation supervised by the Minister of Press--operates three national television channels and five national radio channels. (references) |
Senegal | The most common legal forms of incorporation are as the branch of a foreign company ("succursale"), the Limited Liability Company ("Société Responsabilité Limitée - SARL") and the Public Corporation ("Société Anonyme - SA"). (references) | |
Japan | U.S.-produced semiconductor chip design-layouts are protected for ten years under a special law if they are registered with the Japanese "Industrial Property Cooperation Center"--a Japanese government-backed public corporation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PUBLIC CORPORATION": Quasi-public corporation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
public corporation record | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PUBLIC CORPORATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | offentligt selskab (public body, statutory body, statutory corporation), offentlig virksomhed (corporate body, corporation, public body, public-law body, regie, statutory body, statutory corporation), korporation (corporate body, corporation, public body, public-law body, statutory body, statutory corporation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | entreprise nationale, collectivité publique (public body), collectivité de droit public (public body). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (corporate body, corporation, public body, public-law body, statutory body, statutory corporation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δημόσια επιχείρηση (public body, publicly owned undertaking, statutory body, statutory corporation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | パノラマ写真 (palladium, panoramic photograph, Papa, papaya, paprika, papyrus, parachute, parachute skirt, paradigm, paradigm shift, paradise, paraglider, paragraph, parapsychology, paraquat, parasail, parasite single, parasol, Parathion, paratyphus, parfait, pavilion, Pavlov, performance, perfume, perfumer, pub, public, public acceptance, public course, public domain, public house, public opinion, public relations, public school, public servant, public space, publicity, puff, puff sleeve, puppy), 公社 , 公法人 (juridical person), 公団 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | パブリックコーポレーション , "うしゃ (alighting, cleverness, getting down, getting off, official residence, rear car, religious association, school building, skill, tact, the latter), "うほうじ" (juridical person), "う " (gossip, highly ranked, latter or second part, leaving the platform, lecture platform, rumour, story-telling, your lofty discourse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ublicpay orporationcay javna korporacija. (various references) empresa pública del Estado (State-owned public corporation). (various references) kamu kuruluşu (public utility company). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-i-i-l-n-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-t-u" | |
-5 letters: proportional. | |
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