corporate

Meaning

Adj

1. Of or relating to a corporation.
2. Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
3. Unified into one body; collective.
4. (colloquial) Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A bond issued by a corporation.
2. (countable, uncountable) A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
3. (countable) A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
4. (countable) A corporate company or group.
5. (informal, uncountable) The higher managerial echelons of a corporation.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To incorporate.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become incorporated.

Synonyms

collective

joint

incorporated

corporal

corporative

common

bodied

embodied

incarnate

fleshly

institutional

mutual

organized

physical

shared

unionised

unionized

united

enter into partnership with

of a partner

bodily

collegiate

combined

communal

conjunct

consolidated

cooperative

corporeal

Translations

corporativo

corporativo

corporatiu

colectivo

collectif

corporatif

coletivo

εταιρικός

corporativo

col·lectiu

societario

collegiale

kollegial

συλλογικός

collettivo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: corporat

In summary

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).