• A corporate name usu. includes, and in many states is required to include, the word “corporation,” “incorporated,” or “company,” or an abbreviation of one of those words. Cf. ASSUMED NAME. [Cases: Corporations 43–50. C.J.S. Corporations §§ 98–105.]
corporate name
The registered name under which a corporation conducts legal affairs such as suing, being sued, and paying taxes; the name that a corporation files with a state authority (usu. the secretary of state) as the name under which the corporation will conduct its affairs.