corporate

corporate
cor|po|rate
W2 [ˈko:pərıt US ˈko:r-] adj [only before noun]
[Date: 1500-1600; : Latin; Origin: , past participle of corporare 'to make into a body', from corpus; CORPUS]
1.) belonging to or relating to a corporation
▪ The company is moving its corporate headquarters (=main offices) from New York to Houston.
▪ Vince is vice-president of corporate communications.
▪ Corporate America is not about to be converted to the environmentalist cause.
▪ changing the corporate culture (=the way that people in a corporation think and behave) to accept family-friendly policies
▪ an advertising campaign intended to reinforce our corporate identity (=the way a company presents itself to the public)
▪ the yacht can be hired for corporate hospitality (=entertainment provided by companies for their customers)
2.) shared by or involving all the members of a group
▪ corporate responsibility
3.) used to describe a group of organizations that form a single group
▪ The university is a corporate body made up of several different colleges.
>corporately adv

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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