Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To unite (one thing) with something else already in existence.
- intransitive verb To admit as a member to a corporation or similar organization.
- intransitive verb To cause to merge or combine together into a united whole.
- intransitive verb To cause to form into a legal corporation.
- intransitive verb To give substance or material form to; embody.
- intransitive verb To become united or combined into an organized body.
- intransitive verb To become or form a legal corporation.
- intransitive verb Linguistics To move from the head of one phrase to the head of another, forming a new word by affixing onto that head, as in certain languages when a noun object of a verb is affixed to the verb.
- adjective Combined into one united body; merged.
- adjective Formed into a legal corporation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form into a body; combine, as different individuals, elements, materials, or ingredients, into one body.
- To unite with a body or substance; unite intimately; work in; introduce and combine so as to form a part.
- To place in a body; give material form to; incarnate; embody.
- To form into a body corporate or politic; constitute as a corporation, with power to act as one person and have perpetual succession; confer corporate rights upon: as, to
incorporate a city or a town; to incorporate a bank or a railroad company. - Synonyms and 2. To blend, merge, consolidate.
- To unite with another body so as to make a part of it; be mixed, blended, or combined; be worked in: usually followed by with.
- Not corporeal; not bodily or material; not having a material body.
- Not corporate; not existing as a corporation: as, an incorporate bank.
- Incorporated; united in one body; mixed; conjoined; intimately associated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
- adjective Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
- adjective Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
- intransitive verb To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by
with . - transitive verb To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
- transitive verb To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
- transitive verb To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; ; -- used with with and into.
- transitive verb To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental
- transitive verb To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To include (something) as a part.
- verb transitive To
mix (something in) as aningredient ; toblend - verb transitive To admit as a member of a
company - verb transitive To form into a legal company.
- verb law In United States
constitutional law , to make thepowers of the states belimited by the Bill of Rights
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb unite or merge with something already in existence
- verb form a corporation
- adjective formed or united into a whole
- verb make into a whole or make part of a whole
- verb include or contain; have as a component
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I say all this because I study linguistics, so when I try to build a model of language I know specifically what the output of the model should be (because deducing all the variables that you need to incorporate is a doable task).
Douglass North, On One Foot, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Saying that corporations should have no rights because an individual can incorporate is inconsistent with judicial interpretation of the 1st amendment.
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The day you incorporate is the day your site stops being a “Blog” and becomes a Media Company.
Business week, making millions “blogging” « The Paradigm Shift 2007
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The initial permit needed is the permit to incorporate from the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, a requirement common to all companies that organize in Mexico.
What is a maquiladora? Manufacturing in Mexico: The Mexican in-bond (Maquila) program 2007
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Once permission to incorporate is received, application may be made to SECOFI for a maquila program.
What is a maquiladora? Manufacturing in Mexico: The Mexican in-bond (Maquila) program 2007
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“The day you incorporate is the day your site stops being a “Blog” and becomes a Media Company.”
Business week, making millions “blogging” « The Paradigm Shift 2007
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The day you incorporate is the day your site stops being a “Blog” and becomes a Media Company.
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What I’m trying to incorporate is more of a, certainly for the action sequences, create a pipeline that’s more similar to a CGI film like a Pixar film or even like AVATAR.
Jon Favreau on Why Iron Man 2 Won’t Shoot in IMAX and How Avatar Will Revolutionize Cinema | /Film 2008
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For the most part, a marketer's top-producing search terms incorporate its brand name.
paidContent Jim Spanfeller 2009
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Much of the real authority over intelligence spending resides with the Appropriations Committee, and Rogers said he hopes to "incorporate" some senior members of that panel into his own by inviting them to sit in on some intelligence committee meetings and briefings.
New House intelligence leaders bridge the bipartisan aisle Ben Pershing 2011
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