Incorporate

Quick meaning: Incorporate is a verb meaning (transitive) To include (something) as a part.

Meaning

(transitive) To include (something) as a part.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
2. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
3. (transitive) To form into a legal company.
4. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
5. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
6. (US, law) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
7. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

Example Sentences

Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.

to incorporate another's ideas into one's work

The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.

The Romans[…] did not subdue a country in order to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.

Word Forms

• incorporates
• incorporating
• incorporated

Synonyms for incorporate

Depending on context, synonyms include absorb, add on, assimilate, co-opt, corporate, incorpse.

Antonyms for incorporate

Common opposites include corporate, corporeal, disintegrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include integrate, comprise, integrated, merged, united, unified.

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