disincorporate

dis·in·cor·po·rate

 (dĭs′ĭn-kôr′pə-rāt′)
tr. & intr.v. dis·in·cor·po·rat·ed, dis·in·cor·po·rat·ing, dis·in·cor·po·rates
To remove or become removed from the status of a corporation: After the city was disincorporated, it was reabsorbed into the township. The county legislators allowed the small city to disincorporate.

dis′in·cor′po·ra′tion n.
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disincorporate

(ˌdɪsɪnˈkɔːpəˌreɪt)
vb (tr)
obsolete to remove from a corporation or society
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Many companies will have valued goodwill when they incorporated, and will indeed need to be careful if they wish to disincorporate.
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Through her physicality, then, Imogen will always trouble the masculine political order that worked to disincorporate her.
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But there is one great benefit that a failure to disincorporate denies: the flexibility to tailor criminal procedure to state needs and local conditions.
At the March meeting, as Terrell continued to press for disclosure, the council voted 4-1 to disincorporate the town and to seek information on what steps the town needed to take to do so.
The stated goal is to disincorporate at least half the land held in the RMN.
The new regime may encourage small companies to disincorporate, although this is costly and the decision has been made harder with the likelihood of subsequent changes to the tax system now looming.
(130) If, however, the applicable corporation statute does not provide for conversion, firms that seek to disincorporate into LLCs may have to distribute corporate assets to owners or directly to an LLC.
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