What is “Corp”?
Corp stands for For-Profit Corporation, a public limited liability company used primarily in Japan, South Korea, Philippines. The suffix signals that the business has limited liability and is eligible for public listing.
Full meaning & translation
The full form is For-Profit Corporation. It translates literally as “For-profit corporation with publicly traded shares.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as corporation, hapja hoesa, kabushiki gaisha, kabushiki kaisha.
Where it's used
Corp appears in company names registered in the following 7 jurisdictions:
What it tells you about the company
Equivalent forms around the world
These are the closest structural equivalents to Corp in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “Corp” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme Corp” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "Acme Corp", "country": "jp"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme",
"legal_type": "corp",
"tokens": [
"acme"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Compare Corp with
Frequently asked questions
What does Corp stand for?
Corp stands for For-Profit Corporation, which translates as "For-profit corporation with publicly traded shares".
Is a Corp public or private?
A Corp is a public entity — it can issue shares that are listed and traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a Corp?
Owners of a Corp have limited liability. Their personal assets are protected, and their exposure is capped at the amount they invested.
Which countries use Corp?
Corp is used in Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Russia and 3 other countries.
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