corporate

[kawr-per-it, -prit]

adjective

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

   a corporate executive;

   She considers the new federal subsidy just corporate welfare.

2. forming a corporation.

3. pertaining to a united group, as of persons.

   the corporate good.

4. united or combined into one.

5. corporative.

noun

1. a bond issued by a corporation.

corporate

/ ˈkɔːpərɪt, -prɪt /

adjective

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

Other Word Forms

• corporately adverb
• corporateness noun
• anticorporate adjective
• anticorporately adverb
• anticorporateness noun
• intercorporate adjective
• noncorporate adjective
• noncorporately adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of corporate¹

First recorded in 1350–1400 for verb senses; 1505–15 for adjective senses; Middle English corporaten, from Latin corporātus, past participle of corporāre “to incorporate”; incorporate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of corporate¹

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

Example Sentences

He visited the East Bank Development, one of the city’s largest public-private projects, which aims to create housing, parks, and a corporate campus for Oracle.

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Whether you’ve exited from a business via a sale or you’re a corporate executive and it’s time for you to move out of your role, figuring out financial security is the easy part.

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After working as a vice president of corporate communications for casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp. in Las Vegas, Forkish served as a spokesperson for former Los Angeles County Dist.

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For Goldman’s Spencer Rogers, high-yield corporate bonds— junk bonds —are now “less junky” than they used to be.

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She blames my organization, suggesting that during the Biden years we “systematically criticized appointees with any corporate experience.”

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Related Words

• collective 
• joint