Definition of CORPORATE

corporate

Plural: corporates

Adjective

  • of or belonging to a corporation
    • "corporate rates"
    • "corporate structure"

Adjective Satellite

  • possessing or existing in bodily form; - Shakespeare
    • "`corporate' is an archaic term"
  • done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
    • "the corporate good"
  • organized and maintained as a legal corporation
    • "a special agency set up in corporate form"
    • "an incorporated town"

Adj

  • Of or relating to a corporation.
  • Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
  • Unified into one body; collective.
  • Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.

Noun

  • A bond issued by a corporation.
  • A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
  • A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
  • A corporate company or group.
  • The higher managerial echelons of a corporation.

Verb

  • To incorporate.
  • To become incorporated.

Examples

  • it came down from corporate
  • McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.
  • the corporate authorship of the working group
  • The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.
  • The work could be rewarding, but corporate is micro-managing everything.

Origin / 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).

Scrabble Score: 13

corporate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
corporate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
corporate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

corporate: valid Words With Friends Word