Incorporated - Definition and Overview

Incorporation is:

1. In business, incorporation is the creation of a corporation.
2. In law, incorporation is the process by which the United States Bill of Rights was applied to the laws of individual states.
3. In local government, municipalities such as cities, towns, townships, villages, and boroughs are considered incorporated when they are self-governing entities under the laws of the state or province in which they are located.
4. In linguistics, incorporation is a phenomenon by which a word, usually a verb, forms a kind of compound with, for instance, its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.