corp
noun
Meaning
- A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.
- A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.
- A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy.
- The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.
- A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
- The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
- In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
- A protruding belly; a paunch.
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