What does corporate mean?

Definitions for corporate
ˈkɔr pər ɪt, -prɪtcor·po·rate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. corporateadjective

    of or belonging to a corporation

    "corporate rates"; "corporate structure"

  2. bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnateadjective

    possessing or existing in bodily form

    "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"

  3. corporate, collectiveadjective

    done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

    "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good"

  4. corporate, incorporatedadjective

    organized and maintained as a legal corporation

    "a special agency set up in corporate form"; "an incorporated town"

Wiktionary

  1. corporatenoun

    A bond issued by a corporation

  2. corporateadjective

    of, or relating to a corporation

  3. corporateadjective

    formed into a corporation; incorporated

  4. corporateadjective

    unified into one body; collective

  5. Etymology: From corporatus, past participle of corporare, which in turn was formed from corpus. See also corpse.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CORPORATEadjective

    United in a body or community; enabled to act in legal processes as an individual.

    Etymology: from corpus, Latin.

    Breaking forth like a sudden tempest, he over-run all Munster and Connaught, defacing and utterly subverting all corporate towns that were not strongly walled. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    They answer in a joint and corporate voice,
    That now they are at fall. William Shakespeare, Timon.

    The nobles of Athens being not at this time a corporate assembly, therefore the resentment of the commons was usually turned against particular persons. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. corporate

    Corporate refers to characteristics, activities, or attributes relating to a corporation. A corporation is a large company or group of companies authorized by law to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law, with its own powers, liabilities, and legal rights distinct from its owners. "Corporate" can also relate to matters such as structure, management, or affairs related to a corporation or the corporate world.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Corporateadjective

    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. Corporateadjective

    belonging to a corporation or incorporated body

  3. Corporateadjective

    united; general; collectively one

  4. Corporateverb

    to incorporate

  5. Corporateverb

    to become incorporated

  6. Etymology: [L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See Corpse.]

Freebase

  1. Corporate

    Corporate is a Bollywood film released in July 2006. The film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar stars Bipasha Basu, Kay Kay Menon, Payal Rohatgi, Minissha Lamba and Raj Babbar.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'corporate' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2219

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'corporate' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3963

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'corporate' in Adjectives Frequency: #294

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of corporate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of corporate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of corporate in a Sentence

  1. Bruce Henderson:

    The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

  2. Robert Hewison:

    Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  3. Faith Popcorn:

    The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

  4. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison:

    I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

  5. Copeland Bryan:

    Since coming on, I’ve had a few years getting to do some very interesting work, this has been an opportunity to really hone the skills that I had developed kind of from a startup and business development consulting world. I’d always been corporate adjacent, never in corporate. Just getting to see kind of the processes in a corporate structure, in a big company like Visa that gets to touch like every other company in the world is very eye-opening.

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