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Corporate

//ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Of or relating to a corporation.
"The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise."
2
Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
3
Unified into one body; collective.
"the corporate authorship of the working group"
4
Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation. colloquial
"It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate."

Adjective

1
possessing or existing in bodily form wordnet
2
organized and maintained as a legal corporation wordnet
3
done by or characteristic of individuals acting together wordnet
4
of or belonging to a corporation wordnet

Noun

1
A bond issued by a corporation. countable, uncountable
"So-called junk corporates and emerging-market debt remain generally out of favor."
2
A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience. countable, uncountable
"Currently there are 19 members, who are all in Spotlight and belong to Equity. Areas of work include theatre, musicals, television, film, commercials, corporates and voiceovers."
3
A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise. countable
"McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today."
4
A corporate company or group. countable
5
The higher managerial echelons of a corporation. informal, uncountable
"it came down from corporate"

Verb

1
To incorporate. obsolete, transitive
"This hospital of Savoy was again new founded, erected, corporated , and endowed with lands by Queen Mary"
2
To become incorporated. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

First attested in 1398; from Middle English corporaten (“to incorporate, assimilate; to constitute as a legal corporation”), either from corporat(e) (“(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical”, also used as the past participle of corporaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix) or directly from Latin corporātus + -en, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

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