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corporate

cor·po·rate

UK/ˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/ US/ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.eɪt/ common informal

adjective

1.

of or belonging to a corporation

  • “corporate rates”
  • “corporate structure”
2.

possessing or existing in bodily form

  • “what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind” Shakespeare
  • “an incarnate spirit”
  • “corporate”
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3.

done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

  • “a joint identity”
  • “the collective mind”
  • “the corporate good”
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4.

organized and maintained as a legal corporation

  • “a special agency set up in corporate form”
  • “an incorporated town”
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Origin

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).

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