corporate
Forms
- Comparative
- more corporate
- Superlative
- most corporate
- Plural
- corporates
Definitions
1.Of or relating to an institution.
- The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.
- But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
2.Formed into a institution; incorporated.
3.Unified into one body; collective.
- They answer in a joint and corporate voice.
- I believe in the body of Christ, and the regular assembly of believers, the importance of the sacraments, and the need for corporate worship.
4.Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from an institution.(colloquial)
- It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.
1.A bond issued by an institution.
- So-called junk corporates and emerging-market debt remain generally out of favor.
2.A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
- Currently there are 19 members, who are all in Spotlight and belong to Equity. Areas of work include theatre, musicals, television, film, commercials, corporates and voiceovers.
3.An institution that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
- McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.
4.An institution or group.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1768
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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).