Definitions for: Corporate


[adj] possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
[adj] organized and maintained as a legal corporation; "a special agency set up in corporate form"; "an incorporated town"
[adj] done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good"
[adj] of or belonging to a corporation; "corporate rates"; "corporate structure"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.


Cor"po*rate (-r?t), v. t.
To incorporate. [Obs.] -- Stow.


Cor"po*rate, v. i.
To become incorporated. [Obs.]

Synonyms: bodied, collective, corporal, corporeal, embodied, incarnate, incorporated, joint, material, organized

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