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B2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.ət/ UK /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/ See IPA manual

Freq #4805

Meanings

1

adj
Relating to a large company or business.

She left her corporate job to start her own bakery.
2

adj
Shared by or involving a whole group acting as one.

The report stressed the corporate responsibility of the whole team.

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Synonyms

2 adj · shared by or involving a... collective

Word family

Derived forms concorporatediscorporateencorporateextracorporated

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Phrases (1)

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corporate finance
the management of a company's funding, spending, and other financial activities

Adjective + noun

Idioms (1)

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climb the corporate ladder
to advance step by step through the ranks of a company

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).

*krep- Proto-Indo-European corporat Middle English corporātus Latin

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# corporate

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈkɔɹ.pəɹ.ət/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
**Frequency rank:** 4805

## Meanings
1. Relating to a large company or business.
2. Shared by or involving a whole group acting as one.

## Examples
- She left her corporate job to start her own bakery.
- The report stressed the corporate responsibility of the whole team.

## Derived Forms
- concorporate
- discorporate
- encorporate
- extracorporated

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *krep-
- Root: corporat
- Root: corporātus

## 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).

## AI Etymology
For corporate, 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). Current senses include Relating to a large company or business and Shared by or involving a whole group acting as one. English relatives and later formations include concorporate, discorporate, encorporate.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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