GR translation: corporate death

[Robert Mahnke]

I tend to agree with Mike's initial suggestion, rather than David's view.
I understand "corporate death" to be a sort of bureaucratic demise, not
affecting the units's material existence.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can't seem to find such a meaning anywhere. Corporate seems to
> indicate more of a whole, e.g.
>
>  6.
>  a. Forming a body politic, or corporation.Hence corporate body, body
> corporate: see body n. Compounds 2. corporate town: a town possessing
> municipal rights, and acting by means of a corporation. corporate
> county: a city or town with its liberties, which has been constituted
> a county of itself, independent of the jurisdiction of the historical
> county or shire in which it is situated.
>
>  b. transf. Forming one body constituted of many individuals.
>
>  7.
>  a. Of or belonging to a body politic, or corporation, or to a body of
> persons.
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:56 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Corporate death in this context is only the loss of a part of the body. A
> > "unit." Not the bigger whole.
> >
> >
> > On Monday, July 18, 2016, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> V282.4-9, P286.17-22   He was on one of the main arterials of the
> >> spring’s last dissolution and retreat. Somewhere nearby, one of
> >> Major-General Kammler’s rocket units had together found corporate
> >> death, leaving in their crippled military rage pieces, modules,
> >> airframe sections, batteries rotting, paper secrets rained back into
> >> slurry. Slothrop follows. Any clue’s good enough to hop a train for. .
> >> . .
> >>
> >> Here "corporate death" means the effective demise of the unit, in
> >> their hasty retreat, as opposed to "corporeal death" of the
> >> individuals. Is that correct?
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