corporative
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a corporation.
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of or relating to a political system under which the principal economic functions, as banking, industry, or labor, are organized as corporate unities.
adjective
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of or characteristic of a corporation
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(of a state) organized into and governed by corporations of individuals involved in any given profession, industry, etc
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of corporative
1825–35; < Late Latin corporātīvus, equivalent to Latin corporāt ( us ) corporate + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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Just why Premier Salazar had decided to dabble in democracy after 25 years' devotion to a corporative state modeled on Italian Fascism, he did not say.
From Time Magazine Archive
In July he decided to put into a voting trust his 95% stock control of American Newspapers, Inc., top holding company in the bewildering Hearst corporative pyramid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Filing into the hall came delegates from 23 countries,* ten less, as a result of the replacement of parliamentary governments by dictatorships and corporative states, than were represented at the last Paris meeting in 1927.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dissatisfaction of the powerful Heimwehr was settled fortnight ago when Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg announced that the tentative outline of the new Dollfuss "corporative state" was acceptable to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is partly why I am not content with plausible solutions about credit or corporative rule.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
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