corporate.
Of or relating to an institution; institutional.
Meaning & usage
Of or relating to an institution; institutional.
The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.
Formed into a institution; incorporated.
Unified into one body; collective.
the corporate authorship of the working group
Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from an institution.
It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.
Where this word comes from
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).
A bond issued by an institution.
A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
An institution that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.
An institution or group.
The higher managerial echelons of an institution.
it came down from corporate
The work could be rewarding, but corporate is micro-managing everything.
Where this word comes from
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).
To incorporate.
To become incorporated.
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1398; from Middle English corporaten (“to incorporate, assimilate; to constitute as a legal corporation”), either from corporat(e) (“(if a true adjective) corporeal, physical”, also used as the past participle of corporaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix) or directly from Latin corporātus + -en, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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