Definition

The corporate lawyer's favorite word for 'thing that exists,' especially when that thing is a company, LLC, or some Frankenstein corporate structure designed to optimize taxes. In database design, it's any object you're storing information about. Basically, if it exists and you can point at it (physically or conceptually), some industry professional has probably called it an entity.

Example Usage

The startup's lawyers spent three hours explaining why they needed to create a separate legal entity for each product line, which definitely wasn't about liability protection.

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