corporate
/ˈkoɹ.pə.ɹət/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to an institution; institutional.
adj
Formed into a institution; incorporated.
adj
Unified into one body; collective.
noun
A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise."
- "But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts."
- "Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much."
- "the corporate authorship of the working group"
- "They answer in a joint and corporate voice."
- "I believe in the body of Christ, and the regular assembly of believers, the importance of the sacraments, and the need for corporate worship."
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).
Origin
- Source language: Middle English
- First known use: first attested in 1429
Word Breakdown
- Root: *krep-, corporat, corporātus, corporaten
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkoɹ.pə.ɹət/
- British English: /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more corporate (comparative)
most corporate (superlative)
corporates (plural)
corporates (present, singular)
corporating (participle, present)
corporated (participle, past)
corporated (past)