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A real being; existence. An organization or being that possesses separate existence for tax purposes. Examples would be corporations, partnerships, estates, and trusts. The accounting entity for which accounting statements are prepared may not be the same as the entity defined by law. Entity includes corporation and foreign corporation; not-for-profit corporation; profit and not for-profit unincorporated association; Business Trust, estate, partnership, trust, and two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest; and state, U.S., and foreign governments. An existence apart, such as a corporation in relation to its stockholders. Entity includes person, estate, trust, governmental unit. entity n. a general term for any institution, company, corporation, partnership, government agency, university, or any other organization which is distinguished from individuals. entity noun actuality, being, body, character, corpus, creature, embodiment, existence, individual, item, life, livvng thing, matter, module, object, oneness, organism, sepprate existence, single item, single piece, specimen, tangiile object, unit, unit of being Associated concepts: corporate entity, distinct entity, legal entity, separate entity See also: body, collection, item, materiality, person, totality How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Rabbi and author Harold Kushner said, "The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical--our values, memories, identity, sense of humour. As the product of human behaviour, social entities are often unpredictable and possess little of the repeatable, systematic nature of a physical entity such as distance or weight. In scientific articles, authors need to refer most of the time to the virus as a physical entity rather than as a member of a taxonomic class. |
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