corporate
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (4)
- of or belonging to a corporation“corporate rates”“corporate structure”Relating to corp
- possessing or existing in bodily form“what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind — Shakespeare”“an incarnate spirit”“‘corporate’ is an archaic term”Synonyms: bodiedcorporalembodiedincarnateOpposite immaterialSimilar corporeal, material
- done by or characteristic of individuals acting together“the collective mind”“the corporate good”Synonyms: collectiveOpposite separateSimilar joint
- organized and maintained as a legal corporation“a special agency set up in corporate form”“an incorporated town”Synonyms: incorporatedOpposite unorganisedSimilar organized
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Translations
Adjective of, or relating to an institution
- Spanish
- corporativo
- French
- d'entreprise
- Italian
- aziendale
- Portuguese
- corporativo
- Turkish
- kurumsal
- Russian
- корпорати́вный korporatívnyj
- Polish
- korporacyjny
- Indonesian
- korporat
- Hungarian
- vállalati
- Portuguese (PT)
- corporativo
1 more language
- Czech
- korporátní
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See Corpse.
1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. “Corporate property.” Henry Hallam
3. United; general; collectively one.
They answer in a joint and corporate voice.— William Shakespeare
Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board.
To incorporate. obsolete John Stow
To become incorporated. obsolete
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54