corporatize
[ kawr-per-uh-tahyz, -pruh-tahyz ]
verb (used with object),cor·po·ra·tized, cor·po·ra·tiz·ing.
to develop into big business; bring under the control of a corporation: to corporatize baseball.
Origin of corporatize
1- Also especially British, cor·po·ra·tise .
Other words from corporatize
- cor·po·ra·ti·za·tion, noun
Words Nearby corporatize
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How to use corporatize in a sentence
Right now these communities have been taken over and corporatized in certain ways.
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British Dictionary definitions for corporatize
corporatize
corporatise
/ (ˈkɔːpərətaɪz, -prə-) /
verb
(tr) to convert (a government-controlled industry or enterprise) into an independent company
(intr) to be influenced by or take on the features of a large commercial business, esp in being bureaucratic and uncaring
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