corporate

English Online Dictionary. What means corporate‎? What does corporate mean?

English

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).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/, /ˈkɔː.pɹət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.ət/, /ˈkɔɹ.pɹət/
• Hyphenation: cor‧por‧ate, corp‧orate

Adjective

corporate (comparative more corporate, superlative most corporate)

2. Of or relating to a corporation.
4. Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
6. Unified into one body; collective.
7. (colloquial) Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.

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Noun

corporate (countable and uncountable, plural corporates)

1. (finance) A bond issued by a corporation.
2. A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
3. (business, countable) A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.

4. (business, countable) A corporate company or group.
5. (business, informal, uncountable) The higher managerial echelons of a corporation.

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Etymology 2

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.eɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pəɹət, -ɔː(ɹ)pɹət, -ɔː(ɹ)pəɹeɪt
• Hyphenation: cor‧por‧ate, corp‧orate

Verb

corporate (third-person singular simple present corporates, present participle corporating, simple past and past participle corporated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To incorporate.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To become incorporated.

Derived terms

References

• “corporate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• corporate in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “corporate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• proto-race

Latin

Verb

corporāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of corporō