corporate

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cor=po=rate

CIDE DICTIONARY

corporate, a. [L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See Corpse.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.  Hallam.  [1913 Webster]
•  United; general; collectively one.  [1913 Webster]

  "They answer in a joint and corporate voice."  [1913 Webster]

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.

corporate, v. t. 

 To incorporate.   Stow.  [1913 Webster]

corporate, v. i. 

 To become incorporated.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

corporate, adj.
1 forming a corporation (corporate body; body corporate).
2 forming one body of many individuals.
3 of or belonging to a corporation or group (corporate responsibility).
4 corporative.

Derivative

corporately adv. corporatism n.

Etymology

L corporare corporat- form into a body (corpus -oris)

THESAURUS

corporate

affiliate, affiliated, allied, associate, associated, cabalistic, coincident, combined, compact, comprehensive, concurrent, confederate, confederated, conjoint, conjugate, conjunct, conspiratorial, coupled, enleagued, federate, federated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with, inclusive, incorporated, joined, joint, leagued, married, paired, partners with, teamed, wed, wedded

ROGET THESAURUS

corporate

Junction

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.