corporate
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
The English word “corporate” has 11 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Of or relating to an institution; institutional.
- Formed into a institution; incorporated.
- Unified into one body; collective.
- Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from an institution.
noun
- A bond issued by an institution.
- A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
- An institution that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
- An institution or group.
- The higher managerial echelons of an institution.
verb
- To incorporate.
- To become incorporated.
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…
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