English Explanatory Dictionary

corporate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the whole company.
  2. Formed into a company; incorporated.
  3. Unified into one body; collective.
  4. Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.
noun
  1. A bond issued by the company.
  2. A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
  3. A company that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
  4. A company or group.
  5. The higher managerial echelons of a corporation.
verb
  1. To incorporate.
  2. To become incorporated.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/ /ˈkɔː.pɹət/ en-uk-corporate.ogg /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.ət/ /ˈkɔɹ.pɹət/ /ˈkɔ(r)p(ɵ)reʈ/ /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/ /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.eɪt/

Word forms

corporate more corporate most corporate corporates corporating corporated

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).

Derived words

anticorporate bicorporate body corporate concorporate corporate anorexia corporate censorship corporate citizen corporate death penalty corporate executive corporate finance corporate firewall corporate image corporate income tax corporate ladder corporate law corporate lawyer corporately corporate manslaughter corporate monster corporate nationalism corporateness corporate nun corporate officer corporate raid corporate raider corporatese corporate seal corporate social responsibility corporatespeak corporate tax corporate university corporate veil corporate welfare corporate welfare bum corporatewide corporatey corporatisation corporatism corporatization corporatize corporatocracy corporator discorporate hypercorporate intercorporate intracorporate megacorporate multicorporate noncorporate postcorporate subcorporate transcorporate tricorporate encorporate extracorporated
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