dictionary definitions for "corporate"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  corporate
      adj 1: of or belonging to a corporation; "corporate rates";
             "corporate structure"
      2: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal
         melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate
         spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied,
         corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate]
      3: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a
         joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good"
         [syn: corporate, collective]
      4: organized and maintained as a legal corporation; "a special
         agency set up in corporate form"; "an incorporated town"
         [syn: corporate, incorporated]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corporate \Cor"po*rate\ (k?r"p?-r?t), a. [L. corporatus, p. p.
     of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See
     Corpse.]
     1. 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.
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     2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
        "Corporate property." --Hallam.
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     3. United; general; collectively one.
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              They answer in a joint and corporate voice. --Shak.
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     Corporate member, 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corporate \Cor"po*rate\ (-r?t), v. t.
     To incorporate. [Obs.] -- Stow.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corporate \Cor"po*rate\, v. i.
     To become incorporated. [Obs.]
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