corporate

CEFRB1

/ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Related to a company or a group of companies.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Formed into a company; incorporated.

Examples

  • Corporate bankruptcies continued at a high level last month.

  • Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈkoɹ.pə.ɹət/
  • /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Unified into one body; collective.

  2. Of or relating to a corporation.

  3. Of or relating to the whole company.

More examples

In context

  • He emphasized the company's commitment to high standards of corporate governance.

  • It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.

  • The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.

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Origin

adjective

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).