adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to an institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔː.pɹət/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈkoɹ.pə.ɹət/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈkoɹ.pɹət/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈkoː.pə.ɹət/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈkoː.pɹət/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/
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General-American: /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.eɪt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Formed into a institution; incorporated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Unified into one body; collective.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the corporate authorship of the working group
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from an institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
- It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A bond issued by an institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
An institution that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: business
Examples
- McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
An institution or group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: business
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
The higher managerial echelons of an institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable
Topics: business
Examples
- it came down from corporate
- The work could be rewarding, but corporate is micro-managing everything.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To incorporate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To become incorporated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 12
of or belonging to a corporation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- corporate rates
- corporate structure
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 13
possessing or existing in bodily form- Shakespeare
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind
- an incarnate spirit
- `corporate' is an archaic term
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 14
organized and maintained as a legal corporation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a special agency set up in corporate form
- an incorporated town
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: incorporated
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 15
done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a joint identity
- the collective mind
- the corporate good
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: collective
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
The adjective is first attested in 1429, the noun in 1849; from Middle English corporat(e) (“(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical, embodied; (participle/participial adjective) incorporated; corporated, constituted as a legal corporation”, used as the past participle of corporaten), from Latin corporātus, perfect passive participle of corporō (“to make into a body”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from corpus (“body”, oblique stem in corp-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
First attested in 1398; from Middle English corporaten (“to incorporate, assimilate; to constitute as a legal corporation”), either from corporat(e) (“(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical”, also used as the past participle of corporaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix) or directly from Latin corporātus + -en, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: корпоративен (korporativen) — of, or relating to an institution
- Czech: korporátní — of, or relating to an institution
- Czech: podnikový — of, or relating to an institution
- Czech: firemní — of, or relating to an institution
- Dutch: bedrijfs- — of, or relating to an institution
- Finnish: yhtiö- — of, or relating to an institution
- Finnish: yritys- — of, or relating to an institution
- French: corporatif — of, or relating to an institution
- German: Firmen- — of, or relating to an institution
- German: Unternehmens- — of, or relating to an institution
- German: Betriebs- — of, or relating to an institution
- Hungarian: vállalati — of, or relating to an institution
- Hungarian: vállalat- — of, or relating to an institution
- Hungarian: céges — of, or relating to an institution
- Hungarian: cég- — of, or relating to an institution
- Hungarian: társasági — of, or relating to an institution
- Hungarian: üzleti — of, or relating to an institution
- Hungarian: közületi — of, or relating to an institution
- Indonesian: korporat — of, or relating to an institution
- Indonesian: korporatif — of, or relating to an institution
- Latin: corporātus — of, or relating to an institution
- Manx: cochorpagh — of, or relating to an institution
- Māori: a te rangatōpū — of, or relating to an institution
- Māori: o te rangatōpū — of, or relating to an institution
- Māori: rangatōpū — of, or relating to an institution
- Māori: ā-rangatōpū — of, or relating to an institution
- Polish: firmowy — of, or relating to an institution
- Polish: korporacyjny — of, or relating to an institution
- Portuguese: corporativo — of, or relating to an institution
- Romanian: corporatist — of, or relating to an institution
- Russian: корпорати́вный (korporatívnyj) — of, or relating to an institution
- Spanish: corporativo — of, or relating to an institution
- Turkish: kurumsal — of, or relating to an institution
- Turkish: tüzel — of, or relating to an institution
- Finnish: yhtiömuotoinen — formed into an institution; incorporated
- Finnish: yhtiöitetty — formed into an institution; incorporated
- German: eingegliedert — formed into an institution; incorporated
- German: AG — formed into an institution; incorporated
- German: Aktiengesellshaft — formed into an institution; incorporated
- Hungarian: bejegyzett — formed into an institution; incorporated
- Spanish: incorporado — formed into an institution; incorporated
- Bulgarian: общ (obšt) — unified into one body; collective
- Bulgarian: колективен (kolektiven) — unified into one body; collective
- Finnish: yhdistetty — unified into one body; collective
- Finnish: yhteinen — unified into one body; collective
- Finnish: yhteis- — unified into one body; collective
- German: allgemein — unified into one body; collective
- German: kollektiv — unified into one body; collective
- German: Vereinte — unified into one body; collective
- German: Vereinigte — unified into one body; collective
- German: Kollektiv- — unified into one body; collective
- Hungarian: testületi — unified into one body; collective
- Hungarian: kollektív — unified into one body; collective
- Russian: о́бщий (óbščij) — unified into one body; collective
- Russian: коллекти́вный (kollektívnyj) — unified into one body; collective
- German: die da oben — entity or structure related to an institution, its leadership, or its financial instruments
- German: Vorstandsetage — entity or structure related to an institution, its leadership, or its financial instruments
- Spanish: corporativo — entity or structure related to an institution, its leadership, or its financial instruments
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