Corporate

Quick meaning: Corporate is an adjective meaning Of or relating to the whole company.

Meaning

Of or relating to the whole company.

More Meanings

1. Formed into a company; incorporated.
2. Unified into one body; collective.
3. (colloquial) Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.
4. (finance) A bond issued by the company.
5. A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
6. (business, countable) A company that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
7. (business, countable) A company or group.

Example Sentences

They answer in a joint and corporate voice.

the corporate authorship of the working group

The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.

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

Word Forms

• corporates
• corporating
• corporated

Synonyms for corporate

Depending on context, synonyms include corporeal, joint, collective, incarnate, corporal, embodied.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incorporated, joint, collective, organized, material, incarnate.

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