corporate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   organized and maintained as a legal corporation

   a special agency set up in corporate form

2. 2
   adj

   of or belonging to a corporation

   corporate rates

3. 3
   adj

   Of or relating to the whole company.

   The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.

4. 4
   adj

   Unified into one body; collective.

   the corporate authorship of the working group

5. 5
   adj

   Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.

   It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.

6. 6
   noun

   A bond issued by the company.

   So-called junk corporates and emerging-market debt remain generally out of favor.

7. 7
   noun

   A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.

   Currently there are 19 members, who are all in Spotlight and belong to Equity. Areas of work include theatre, musicals, television, film, commercials, corporates and voiceovers.

8. 8
   noun

   A company that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.

   McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.

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).