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
- noncorporative adjective
Etymology
Origin of corporative
1825–35; < Late Latin corporātīvus, equivalent to Latin corporāt ( us ) corporate + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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An ex-paratrooper and amateur boxer, Serling had corporative experience only in a stint with Crosley Corp. in a low-echelon job After World War II, Serling wrote his own local dramatic show for Cincinnati's station WKRC-TV.
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
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
The right of Labor to the fruits of its toil has been obscured by the complexities flowing from the corporative form of financing.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, the gild merchant was certainly an official organ or department of the borough administration, and it exerted considerable influence upon the economic and corporative growth of the English municipalities.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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