different between corporate vs incorporation

English

Etymology

From Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to make into a body”), which in turn was formed from corpus (“body”). See also corpse.

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??.p??.?t/, /?k??.p??t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.p?.??t/, /?k??.p??t/
• (verb)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??.p??.e?t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.p?.?e?t/
• Hyphenation: cor?por?ate, corp?orate

Adjective

corporate (comparative more corporate, superlative most corporate)

1. Of or relating to a corporation.
2. Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
3. Unified into one body; collective.
4. Related to corporation that franchises rather than an individual franchise.

   The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.

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Translations

Noun

corporate (countable and uncountable, plural corporates)

1. (finance) A bond issued by a corporation.
2. A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
3. (business, uncountable) A corporation that franchises, as opposed to than an individual franchise.

   McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.

Verb

corporate (third-person singular simple present corporates, present participle corporating, simple past and past participle corporated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To incorporate.
   • 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London

     This hospital of Savoy was again new founded, erected, corporated , and endowed with lands by Queen Mary

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To become incorporated.

References

• corporate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• corporate in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• corporate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

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Latin

Verb

corpor?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of corpor?

English

Etymology

From Middle English incorporacioun, from Old French incorporacion, from Late Latin incorporatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

incorporation (countable and uncountable, plural incorporations)

1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation

4. The act of creating a corporation.
5. A body incorporated; a corporation.
6. (linguistics) A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

   Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.

7. (law) A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states. ^Wp

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