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Corporate : adj
1: of or belonging to a corporation; "corporate rates";
"corporate structure"
2: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal
melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an
incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn:
bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate]
3: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a
joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate
good" [syn: collective]
4: organized and maintained as a legal corporation; "a special
agency set up in corporate form"; "an incorporated town"
[syn: incorporated]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Corporate : \Cor"po*rate\ (-r?t), v. t.
To incorporate. [Obs.] -- Stow.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Corporate : \Cor"po*rate\, v. i.
To become incorporated. [Obs.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Corporate : \Cor"po*rate\ (k?r"p?-r?t), a. [L. corporatus, p. p.
of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See
Corpse.]
1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an
association, and endowed by law with the rights and
liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a
corporate town.
2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
``Corporate property.'' --Hallam.
3. United; general; collectively one.
They answer in a joint and corporate voice. --Shak.
Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a
corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an
honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American
Board.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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