articles of incorporation

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   a legal document that creates a corporation; it is filed with a state by the founders of a corporation and is governed by the laws of the state

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Questions about articles of incorporation

What does articles of incorporation mean?

articles of incorporation means "a legal document that creates a corporation; it is filed with a state by the founders of a corporation and is governed by the laws of the state".

Is articles of incorporation a common word?

articles of incorporation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.