Corporate
['kɔːp(ə)rət] or [ˈkɔːrpərət]
Definition
(adj.) organized and maintained as a legal corporation; 'a special agency set up in corporate form'; 'an incorporated town' .
(adj.) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; 'a joint identity'; 'the collective mind'; 'the corporate good' .
(adj.) of or belonging to a corporation; 'corporate rates'; 'corporate structure' .
Edited by Debra--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
(a.) Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
(a.) United; general; collectively one.
(v. t.) To incorporate.
(v. i.) To become incorporated.
Typist: Thaddeus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Incorporated.
Checker: Zachariah
Examples
- Is it satisfied by a leasehold or a life-interest, or by such an arrangement of corporate property as is offered by a collegiate foundation, or by the provision of a public park? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His presence was so quiet, almost like a vacancy in the corporate air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These are the corporate beggars. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Because, I said, our rulers will often have to practise upon the body corporate with medicines. Plato. The Republic.
- In all towns-corporate, all persons are free to sell butchers' meat upon any lawful day of the week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Leigh