Age sets in these societies are formed by the periodic grouping together of young people-usually men-into a corporate unit with a name and a collective identity.

Citicorp added $372 million to its loan-loss reserves in the first half of this year for its global corporate unit, where the commercial real estate loans are held.

The other major players, all corporate units, do not disclose revenues.

Indian families are patriarchal and often function as corporate economic units.

Until Mr. Taylor's departure last year, there had been talk of Barclays dividing into retail and corporate units, but such discussion seems to have ended.

There are 75,000 corporate units around the country, but in the summer, peak season for employee relocation and the arrival of trainees, that number temporarily escalates to 100,000.

At the time, Chase said it was freezing hiring in its corporate and business-support units.

These divisions will be replaced by a single corporate unit.

During the Song Dynasty, ordinary clans began to organize themselves into corporate units and produce genealogies.

A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty.