Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
- adjective Of or relating to a corporation.
- adjective United or combined into one body; collective.
- adjective Of or relating to a corporative government or political system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To incorporate; embody.
- To become united or be incorporated.
- United in a body in the legal sense, as a number of individuals who are empowered to transact business as an individual; legally incorporated; constituting a corporation: as, a corporate assembly or society; a corporate town.
- Of or pertaining to a corporation; belonging to an organized community: as, corporate rights or possessions.
- In general, of or relating to any body of persons or individuals united in a company or community; common; collective.
- Forming or being a body of any kind; embodied; combined as a whole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To incorporate.
- intransitive verb obsolete To become incorporated.
- adjective Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated.
- adjective Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
- adjective United; general; collectively one.
- adjective an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a
corporate member of the American Board.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to a
corporation . - noun finance A
bond issued by acorporation - verb obsolete, intransitive To become incorporated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective organized and maintained as a legal corporation
- adjective done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
- adjective of or belonging to a corporation
- adjective possessing or existing in bodily form
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But viewed this way, the term corporate social responsibility is as meaningful as cotton candy.
Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009
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But viewed this way, the term corporate social responsibility is as meaningful as cotton candy.
Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009
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But viewed this way, the term corporate social responsibility is as meaningful as cotton candy.
Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009
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The term corporate social responsibility has emerged as a key element of discussion about American business organizations.
Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979
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The term corporate social responsibility has emerged as a key element of discussion about American business organizations.
Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979
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The term corporate social responsibility has emerged as a key element of discussion about American business organizations.
Stress and the Manager KARL ALBRECHT 1979
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There are many meanings to the term corporate responsibility and one of them is not to fetishize female sexuality.
Alex Leo: Five Sexist Trends the Advertising World Just Can't Shake 2009
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The term corporate socialism was employed to identify this relationship.
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The term corporate will be used here to describe the traditional conception, since that conception presents a right-holding group as a unitary entity.
Group Rights Jones, Peter 2008
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The term corporate welfare is widely used to describe the bestowal of favorable treatment to particular corporations by the government.
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