corporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
ipa: /ˈkɔː.pɹət/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.ət/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.pɹət/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔ(r)p(ɵ)reʈ/
Forms: form: more corporate
form: most corporate
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1429, the noun in 1849; from Middle English corporat(e) (“(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical, embodied; (participle/participial adjective) incorporated; corporated, constituted as a legal corporation”, used as the past participle of corporaten), from Latin corporātus, perfect passive participle of corporō (“to make into a body”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from corpus (“body”, oblique stem in corp-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.
text: But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: Of or relating to a corporation.
glosses: Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
examples: text: the corporate authorship of the working group
text: They answer in a joint and corporate voice.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Unified into one body; collective.
examples: text: It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.
glosses: Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: anticorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: bicorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: body corporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: concorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: corporate anorexia
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word: corporate censorship
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word: corporate citizen
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word: corporate death penalty
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word: corporate executive
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word: corporate finance
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word: corporate firewall
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word: corporate image
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word: corporate income tax
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word: corporate ladder
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word: corporate law
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word: corporately
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word: corporate monster
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word: corporate nationalism
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word: corporateness
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word: corporate nun
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word: corporate officer
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word: corporate raid
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word: corporate raider
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word: corporatese
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word: corporate seal
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word: corporate social responsibility
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word: corporatespeak
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word: corporate tax
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word: corporate university
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word: corporate veil
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word: corporate welfare
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word: corporate welfare bum
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word: corporatewide
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word: corporatey
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word: corporatisation
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word: corporatism
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word: corporatization
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word: corporatize
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word: corporatocracy
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word: corporator
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word: discorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: hypercorporate
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word: intercorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: intracorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: megacorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: multicorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: noncorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: postcorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: subcorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: transcorporate
sense: Terms derived from corporate (adjective)
word: tricorporate