corporatize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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(tr) to convert (a government-controlled industry or enterprise) into an independent company
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(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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To set themselves apart from unscrupulous competitors and pull in bigger hauls, some of the leading ransomware gangs began to self-regulate and corporatize their operations over the last several years.
From Slate ● May 18, 2022
The solution is not to corporatize ethics internally—it’s to bring greater external pressure and accountability.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2017
Her background as a cardiologist and desire to "corporatize" NIH drew "hostility" from basic scientists who worried about their funding, Korn says.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 8, 2011
They're all there to catch rides offered by Megabus, the largest of the private companies to corporatize New York's "Chinatown bus" model of street-side pickup, express travel between sizable cities, and cut-rate fares.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 7, 2011
Hospice was transformed into a largely corporatized, multibillion-dollar for-profit behemoth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
The ’70s were punk, the ’80s were wild, and the ’90s by comparison felt sterile and corporatized, like we were all J.Crew bots, quoting Friends and drinking Starbucks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Where “The Pitt” inspires awe at what these doctors achieve with a paucity of resources, time and patience, “Scrubs” lampoons the absurdity of a corporatized medical system steadily grinding down doctor and patient alike.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
On Nov. 1, the privacy-centric messaging app Signal launched its Stories feature, bringing the corporatized social network design feature to messaging-only apps.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2022
Seattle has slid closer to becoming Everywhere Else, America: Sterile, empty, with corporatized leavings.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
Critics of the encroaching control of corporatizing forces in the emerging world of psychedelic research were not limited to the event's Indigenous contingent.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2023
It scrutinizes fast food step by step and bite by bite, all the corporatizing, globalizing and industrializing of these once family-scale neighborhood businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
It’s hard to be shocked in a cultural world that has become so adept at coopting and corporatizing the avant-garde, as Hughes himself recognized.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2019
That installment leads with the dawning of Michael Jordan’s revolutionary tenure in the NBA, highlighting the ways he ushered in the era of corporatizing personal brands.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2018
You almost feel sorry for him, having to be put through more corporatizing, when he is 99% there on his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2014
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