corporate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Relating to a large company or business.

   She left her corporate job to start her own bakery.

2. 2
   adj

   Shared by or involving a whole group acting as one.

   The report stressed the corporate responsibility of the whole team.

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).

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