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incorporate

Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/

The English word “incorporate” has 10 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To include (something) as a part.
  2. To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
  3. To admit as a member of a company
  4. To form into a legal company.
  5. To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
  6. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
  7. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.

adjective

  1. Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
  2. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
  3. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).

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