body corporate
noun Law.
a person, association, or group of persons legally incorporated; corporation.
Origin of body corporate
First recorded in 1490–1500
Words nearby body corporate
body cell,
body center plate,
body check,
body clock,
body combat,
body corporate,
body count,
body double,
body drop,
body dysmorphic disorder,
body english
Example sentences from the Web for body corporate
This society is a body-corporate for the practice of physic within London, and several miles about it.
London in 1731 |Don Manoel GonzalesThis locker was big enough to admit the body-corporate of the skipper.
Within The Enemy's Lines |Oliver OpticThe harengres, or fish-women at Paris, form a sort of body-corporate.
British Dictionary definitions for body corporate
body corporate