corporate
adjective /ˈkɔːpərət/
/ˈkɔːrpərət/
[only before noun]- connected with a large business company
- corporate finance/profits/tax
- corporate executives/clients/sponsors
- corporate identity (= the image of a company, which all its members share)
- corporate hospitality (= when companies entertain customers to help develop good business relationships)
- initiatives to improve standards of corporate governance
- the prevailing mood in the boardrooms of corporate America
- Their corporate headquarters are in Boston.
- (specialist) forming a corporation (= an organization or group of organizations that is recognized by law as a single unit)
- The BBC is a corporate organization.
- The law applies both to individuals and to corporate bodies.
- involving or shared by all the members of a group
- a corporate act of worship in the College chapel
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare ‘form into a body’, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’.