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[kawr-per-it, -prit]

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adjective

of, for, or belonging to a corporation or corporations: a corporate executive; She considers the new federal subsidy just corporate welfare.

forming a corporation.

pertaining to a united group, as of persons: the corporate good.

united or combined into one.

corporative.

noun

a bond issued by a corporation.

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Origin:
1350–1400 for v. senses; 1505–15 for adj. senses; Middle English corporaten < Latin corporātus past participle of corporāre to incorporate; see corpus

Related forms

cor·po·rate·ly, adverb

cor·po·rate·ness, noun

an·ti·cor·por·ate, adjective

an·ti·cor·por·ate·ly, adverb

an·ti·cor·por·ate·ness, noun

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in·ter·cor·po·rate, adjective

non·cor·po·rate, adjective

non·cor·po·rate·ly, adverb

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Amid much of the recent economic turmoil, corporate profits have been one beacon of hope for investors.

The veteran vice president for advancement at various times ran everything from the athletics department to corporate spinoffs.

Corporate campuses often devote a large percentage of available space to landscaping, and those sweeping lawns require irrigation.

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Amid much of the recent economic turmoil, corporate profits have been one beacon of hope for investors.

The veteran vice president for advancement at various times ran everything from the athletics department to corporate spinoffs.

Corporate campuses often devote a large percentage of available space to landscaping, and those sweeping lawns require irrigation.

Take off your corporate american blinders and debate what's really going on here.

Traditionally, decisions have been made by political and corporate leadership.

Dan's good work is catching on with corporate customers too.

Consumerland is the quadrant where individual desires meet a social and corporate center.

The underlying psychology helps explain why ethical lapses in the corporate world seem so pervasive and intractable.

The deadlines listed below apply only to corporate and image advertising.

Nike and other companies that have been criticized for using sweatshop labor have drawn up corporate social-responsibility plans.

They all have their inside corporate reasons, no doubt.

Summer camps and corporate teambuilding also available.

University trustees are generally drawn from a business background and are accustomed to corporate plans.

The results so far are no match for the depth and breadth of government and corporate products.

Corporate applications are well under way, and consumer uses are emerging.

Apollo's directors worry about theft, corporate spies and their own safety.

Many colleges have advisory boards made up of corporate executives who give advice on curriculum development.

Cutting energy use at work benefits the corporate budget and the environment.

Corporate corn farming may be revealed as one of the great scams of our times.

If you're a corporate lawyer, this is beautiful thing.

Tysons increased its resilience in the nineties by buttressing its retail core with corporate offices.

What this nation needs is another corporate tax cut.

Her work has appeared in numerous journals, newspapers and corporate publications.

Finally, there's the simple matter of corporate image.

If you can't get private funding, or corporate funding, it must not be that important.

Corporate farmers are the ones coming up with these methods not small operations.

The problem is one of corporate corruption, and the prevention of even more corporate corruption.

From a corporate business model, nuclear wins hands down.

We cannot risk reducing corporate profits by forcing them to reduce pollution after all.

The alliance between a group of activists who want to see the trash heap cleared and the corporate recycling world is no accident.

My column this week mentions several companies that have paid relatively little in corporate taxes in the last five years.

Our corporate partners speak highly of the value of this model for industry.

Given how this topic touches the hot buttons of environmentalism, corporate governance and.

Kings of the corporate jungle may survive by using conflict and cooperation techniques honed by their primate relatives.

Now he wants to teach the world how to break into military facilities and corporate headquarters.

Links to the corporate world and the ability to lead research teams will be especially welcome.

Although little understood in businesses today, corporate culture is being measured-and risk better averted.

But the town government and corporate investors want to spend nearly one billion.

CueCat scanners help to push products by linking barcodes to corporate websites.

If you follow your company's expense policy, you shouldn't be held liable for your corporate card balance.

Under the leadership of a new admissions dean from the corporate world.

Corporate jets further clog up our already crowded airspace.

Corporate bigwigs get golden parachutes to ease their exits.

But the company's spending reflected a go-go corporate culture in which top executives cast traditional.

I'd have to rate corporate skullduggery as more skilled by far---more direct and more deadly.

Often such travel and corporate expenses are buried deep within.

Administrators thought visitor revenue and corporate sponsorship would cover the cost.

If your pockets aren't deep enough to fight a corporate giant, then sue the little guys for milk money.

Appointing board members with diverse backgrounds could increase critical thinking and help corporate decision-making.

Beyond making drugs, however, such big-dollar corporate alliances remain rare.

She gives frequent presentations on global health issues for corporate and nonprofit organizations.

There are few examples of corporate welfare that so blindly ignore the effects of a toxic material.

We should not scrificeour environment for corporate profits.

The tight-lipped corporate giant recently made a move.

They are never taught to question the content of the tests, which are determined by the corporate state.

Some are professionals, some are amateurs, some are even account managers enjoying a corporate team-building weekend.

If the corporate giants get ahold of this resource do you think they will nurture it with kid gloves.

Also corporate logos, floor plans, whatever the camera recognizes.

Zimpher admits to being infatuated with self-help books, especially those about corporate leadership.

She currently serves on several corporate and not-for-profit boards.

If you want to make real money, you might talk to folks in the corporate sector and see what they might suggest.

Popular spot for film shoots and corporate retreats.

The temptation to gain lucrative insider knowledge of corporate planning and intellectual property is a large one.

Many many scientific journals have been created to serve corporate industrial interests.

The only leadership that is shown by energy conglomerates is to sustain the corporate structure not our energy needs.

Good news algae biofuel technologies are gaining increased attention from the corporate world.

Freedom is not defended by exposing the citizens lives to corporate or government actors.

Such privatization often leads to the consolidation and corporate control of publicly owned fish resources.

It makes one wonder if this is corporate defensive behavior or an attempt at empirical understanding of what really happened.

The corporate buyout binge has elevated the default risk at a range of businesses.

Many of those workers were cashiered for no reason other than outright greed by corporate managers.

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World English Dictionary

corporate (ˈkɔːpərɪt, -prɪt)

—*adj*
1.	forming a corporation; incorporated
2.	of or belonging to a corporation or corporations: corporate finance
3.	of or belonging to a united group; joint

[C15: from Latin corporātus made into a body, from corporāre, from corpus body]

'corporately

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

corporate

late 14c., "united in one body," from L. corporatus, pp. of corporare "form into a body," from corpus (gen. corporis) "body" (see corporeal).

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