certificate of incorporation

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   state approval of the articles of incorporation of a corporation

   Broadercertificate

   Part ofcharter

Questions about certificate of incorporation

What does certificate of incorporation mean?

certificate of incorporation means "state approval of the articles of incorporation of a corporation".

Is certificate of incorporation a common word?

certificate 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.