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incorporation

/ɪŋˌkɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/ noun C1
  1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis. (countable, uncountable)
  3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation. (countable, uncountable) · After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.
  4. The act of creating a corporation. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A body incorporated; a corporation. (countable, uncountable)
  6. A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function. (countable, uncountable) · Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.
  7. A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. (countable, uncountable)

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Singlish is characterized by its remarkable efficiency and its playful incorporation of loanwords from these diverse languages.
The Linguistic Melting Pot: Understanding Singlish, p. 1 · C1

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