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Definition: Corporate |
CorporateAdjective1. 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". 3. Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good". 4. Organized and maintained as a legal corporation; "a special agency set up in corporate form"; "an incorporated town". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corporate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Etymology: Corporate \Cor"po*rate\, adjective. [Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare to shape into a body, from corpus body. See Corpse.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A corporation is a legal entity, other than a natural person which often has similar rights in law as a person. This is referred to as corporate personhood and is seen by critics as a fundamental flaw in the nature of corporations. In civil law systems corporations are referred to as moral persons and may also go by the name SA (society anonymous) or something similar, depending on the language. In modern practice, corporation is often used more narrowly to mean commercial entities created within a governmental framework. However, monasteries, interest-groups, (both can be formed as not-for-profit corporations) cities and townships (often chartered as public corporations) among others, may also have corporate identities, some with lengthy histories.
=General=
Legal Status
Within the official framework, a corporation or in some jurisdictions a company, is a legal, artificial entity with or without stockholders, who may be humans, trusts or other corporations. When there are no stockholders this may be a non-stock corporation, a membership corporation or similar name — this second type of corporations are not-for-profit corporations. In either category, the corporation is a collective of individuals with a distinct legal status with special privileges that are not given to ordinary unincorporated businesses, voluntary associations or groups of individuals. Corporations are chartered by a state, and regulated by the laws enacted by that state. Its activities will generally be regulated by the law of the state in which the corporation operates, if different from the state in which it was formed.Some jurisdictions do not allow the use of the word company alone to denote corporate status, since the word company may refer to a partnership or may merely be part of the business entities name. Some of the magic words used to signify corporation status that can only be used with state sanction include: Limited (Ltd.), Unlimited, Incorporated (Inc.), Corporation (Corp.), S.A. (Société anonyme), GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung). Some jurisdictions require that one of a list of terms or abbreviations appear in the corporate name. Generally speaking if a corporate, be it domestically created or foreign (from another jurisdiction) it must be registered to conduct business in a state, such a registry will also designate the principal addresss of the corporation, i.e. where it may be contacted for legal process.
Sometimes called a fictional person, legal person or a moral person (as opposed to a natural person); in the United States this is known as the doctrine of corporate personhood. Under such a doctrine, obviously a legal fiction, a corporation enjoys many (or all) of the rights and obligations of individual citizens such as the ability to own property, sign binding contracts , pay taxes, have constitutional rights and otherwise participate in society. Typically a corporation is governed by a board of directors which has a fiduciary duty to look after the interests of the corporation. The corporate officers such as the CEO, president, treasurer and other titled offices manage the affairs of the corporation.
Benefits of forming a Corporation
Two of the most salient features of incorporation are:
- (1) Limited Liability. Unlike in a partnership, stockholders of a corporation are not liable for the corporation's debts and obligations. As a result their losses are limited to the amount which they paid for the stock. Not only does this allow businesses to engage in risky enterprises, but limited liability is also the basis for trading in corporate stock. Without the limitation on the amount that an investor can lose, the time and effort required to determine whether the stock could wipe the investor out would render the stock market very illiquid (as is observed of the very illiquid market for partnership interests).
- (2) Perpetual Lifetime. The assets and structure of the corporation exist beyond the lifetime of any of its shareholders, officers or directors. This allows for capital to be stable, and thus invested in larger and longer term projects, than if the corporate assets were subject to dissolution and distribution. This feature was also very important in the Medieval period, when land donated to the Church (a corporation) would not generate the feudel fees that a lord was entitled to upon a landholder's death. In this regard, see Statute of Mortmain.
Origins
Early corporations of the commercial sort, such as the Dutch East India Company were formed under frameworks set up by governments to undertake tasks which were too risky or too expensive for individuals or the governments to embark upon.Kenneth Pomeranz, an economic historian, argues that the need to perform pseudo-governmental operations such as the waging of war was the reason this economic structure developed in Europe and not in China or the Middle East.
Non-profit Organizations
In modern economic systems, the corporate form of governance is commonly used for a wide variety of business and non-profit activities. Though the laws governing these creatures of statute are often different the courts often interpret provisions of the law that apply to profit making enterprises in the same manner, or in a similar manner, when applying principles to non-profit organizations as the underlying structures between these two types of entity are often very similar.
National Features
United States
In the United States there are several corporate forms; what are generally called corporations are businesses run for profit that have been granted corporate charters by the States of the United States. The federal government of the United States usually does not grant corporate charters to businesses (exceptions include public corporations such as the Post Office and Amtrak). American corporations are typically chartered in Delaware, which charges no tax on activities outside the state and has courts experienced in business law. Corporations set up for privacy or asset protection are often chartered in Nevada, which allows setting them up with no record of who owns them.Historically, most U.S. states issued charters for fixed lengths of time (e.g. a manufacturing corporation might be chartered for forty years), and only by an act of the legislature. The theory behind a limited charter was that it forced corporations to remain accountable to government (i.e. the community) for the special privileges granted to them. Investors protested that it actually led to unhealthy amounts of political payoffs and graft. Most states now charter unlimited-term corporations for a small fee, and possibly a yearly tax.
Canada
In Canada both the federal government and the provinces have corporate statutes, and thus a corporation may have a provincial or federal charter. Many older corporations in Canada were created by an Act of Parliament before the general corporation law was passed.Related topics: Preferred stock, Corporate governance, Bylaws, Delaware corporation, Commercial law, Stock certificates
=Corporate Taxation=
In the United States
In the United States business corporations are taxed according to several different categories. The United States Internal Revenue Service classifies organizations as associations (taxable as corporations), partnerships (not limited to common-law partnerships) or trusts ("ordinary trusts"). [see 26 CFR §§301.7701-2 through 301.7701-4]The two types of corporations for taxation purposes are:
C-Corp - Most common form of corporation, the C-corporation has few ownership restrictions and must pay corporate taxes; all publicly traded corporations are C-corporations. C-corporations pay income taxes just as an individual does, and C-corporations do not receive a deduction on dividends they pay to stockholders. This leads to the so-called "double-taxation" of corporate profits: a given profit will be subject to income tax twice, once at the corporate level, as an item of income, and once at the stockholder level, as a dividend.
S-Corp - Commonly used by small business proprietors, the S-corporation pays no corporate taxes, but instead passes profits and losses directly to its owners (the stockholders) who declare such profits and losses as part of their personal income taxes). In this manner they are similar to partnerships, although there are some subtle differences in taxation. As a result, S-corporations are not subject to the "double-taxation" that C-corporations are. However, S-corporation treatment is not available to all corporations. An S-corporation must generally have no more than 75 stockholders, all of the stockholders must be natural persons (not other corporations or entities) who are U.S. residents, and the S-corporation can only issue a single class of stock.
=Other related types of Business Entities=
Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
A partnership is a contractual agreement between individuals and/or corporations in which profits and losses are shared. It is similar to a sole proprietorship but it has more than one member, each called partners. A partnership is not considered a separate entity and the partners are all liable for the debts of each partner (if contracted to on behalf of the partnership). Usually a partnership will not survive the death of one of the partners (though it may be reorganized at that time).A partnership can have general partners and limited partners (also known as silent partners). General partners are liable for all of the debts and obligations of the partnership. Limited partners, on the other hand, are liable only for the amounts they have specifically agreed to contribute to the partnership pursuant to the partnership agreement.
A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a partnership composed entirely of limited partners without any general partner. In most U.S. jurisdictions, limited liability partnership are, for historical reasons, restricted to associations of professionals such as lawyers and doctors. However, this restriction is fairly meaningless since the same legal result can be achieved using the form of a limited liability company.
Limited Liability Company
The limited liability company (LLC) is similar to a partnership in that it provides a very flexible structure. A limited liability company has members, rather than partners, and is governed by an operating agreement, rather than a partnership agreement. Otherwise it is very similar to a partnership in that the members can contractually arrange in the operating agreement for the management and economic provisions that they wish.Many lawyers and businesspersons prefer the limited liability company form of taxation because of its extreme flexibility and favorable tax treatment.
Business Trusts
There is also a final type of business entity that can be used, though it is most often used as a vehicle for investment purposes, called a business trust. Only a few jurisdictions allow for the creation of business trusts, most notably Massachusetts. In many jurisdictions it has become popular as a vehicle for investing in real estate, which are called real estate investment trusts or REITs (pronounced reets).
Taxation of Non-Corporate Entities
Since 1996, United States partnerships and limited liability companies have been able to elect whether to be treated as corporations or "flow-through" entities under the IRS' check the box regulations (see form 8832). A flow-through entity is not treated as a person for income tax purposes, instead its income and loss (and every other tax attribute) is divided up among its partners and reported by them to the IRS. There are some limits on an entity's ability to elect flow-through treatment, the most important of which is a publicly-traded company cannot elect flow-through treatment; as a practical matter this means that publicly traded corporations are subject to a more stringent tax regime than closely held companies.=See also=
- Corporate personhood
- Lists of companies
- Public Limited Company (plc)
- Corporate state
- Guild
- Corporatism
- Venture capital
- Corporate governance
- Student corporation
Quote
- Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn. ---- Andrew Jackson
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corporation."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COINS | English | Corporate organisations interactive network systems | Computing, Education |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CorporateSynonyms: bodied (adj), collective (adj), corporal (adj), embodied (adj), incarnate (adj), incorporated (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Junction | Adjective: joined; Verb: joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact; hand in hand. |
Party | Corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine, trust. |
Ship | Jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Playtronics Corporate Headquarters, the complete blueprints (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.) Corporate thinking sucks (Can't Stop the Music; writing credit: Allan Carr; Bronte Woodard) Come on, Jerry, you know how these corporate politics work (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Actually, thanks to our creative bookkeeping and corporate loopholes, we only pay about $3 in taxes a year (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) All they see is another faceless corporate venture (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Corporate Queen (1970) Corporate Affairs (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Building 11, Corporate Square, CDC. March 1999. Credit: CDC. |  | [Exterior view- Corporate headquarters and research laboratories of Burroughs Wellcome CO.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Invasion of the corporate body snatchers / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farm Security Administration Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in this group came from eight different states. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Casa Grande project, Arizona. Large-scale corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide profits. Children in group came from eight different states. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "AZ Building 20" by James Hernandez Commentary: "Corporate Building." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Its last words are: corporate guilds for manufacture, patriarchal relations in agriculture. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For these corporate executives, time is money. (references) | |
Market share varies across corporate market shareholders. (references) | ||
It is diversifying to maintain revenues and corporate customers. (references) | ||
Children | Angola | Private religious, community, or corporate groups have been unable to fill this vacuum. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | Christian and Islamic groups planning to build new churches or mosques are required to register with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). (references) |
Cameroon | This definition includes "any group of natural persons or corporate bodies whose vocation is divine worship" or "any group of persons living in community in accordance with a religious doctrine." The denomination then submits a file to the Minister of Territorial Administration. (references) | |
Economic History | Brazil | Dividends cannot exceed corporate profits. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Most large contracts go to corporate clients. (references) | |
Lebanon | Income and corporate taxes are relatively low. (references) | |
Human Rights | Portugal | In April the ECHR ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay a fine to a corporate plaintiff in a case that had lasted over 17 years without a final resolution. (references) |
Philippines | Legal experts inside and outside the justice system criticize personal and professional relationships between some judges and individual or corporate litigants. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | On September 2, airport police arrested Hamed Bakayoko, supporter of the RDR president and president and director general of Radio Nostalgie, as he was leaving for Dakar, Senegal, to attend a corporate board meeting. (references) | |
Minorities | Singapore | Malays remain underrepresented at senior corporate levels, and, some have claimed, in certain sectors of government and the military. (references) |
South Africa | The employers cited a lack of training and development, poor recruitment processes, and an antagonistic corporate culture as the main impediments to affirmative action. (references) | |
Political Economy | IRELAND | The standard rate of corporate tax is 20 percent. (references) |
Trade | Mauritius | They are liable to a 15% corporate tax. (references) |
Panama | Companies in the free zone pay no corporate income tax. (references) | |
Russia | Since the crisis, it has focused on retail and corporate clients. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | There are also corporate taxes, import taxes and duties, and other levies. (references) |
Lebanon | Special corporate rates can be negotiated and seasonal rates are available. (references) | |
Australia | Australia is a sought-after international destination for conventions, corporate meetings, and corporate incentive travel. (references) | |
Women | Croatia | Women in these positions often are among the first to be laid off in times of corporate restructuring. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | Meanwhile, DYMEL had completed the project, reorganized its corporate identity to shelter itself from claims, and moved all assets and operations back to El Salvador. (references) |
Korea | The Tripartite Commission concluded an agreement that covered, among other things, unemployment policy, corporate restructuring, labor conditions, labor market flexibility, and the promotion of basic labor rights. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Hartmann | Nothing specific. I'm just saying, it's quite obvious we're all in the conveyer belt to the corporate abattoir. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Vice President, I'd like to turn to the domestic arena. One of the real problems, I think, for the county and for the Republican Party and for the administration has been this issue of corporate corruption. |
Rush Limbaugh | Corporate America is responsible for the retirement dreams of the citizenry, not the citizens themselves. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The present corporate body, denominated the president, directors, and company of the Bank of the United States, will have existed at the time this act is intended to take effect twenty years. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | For our corporate and business leaders, we're going to work here to keep bringing the deficit down, to expand markets, to support their success in every possible way. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Corporate greed and malfeasance cause innocent people to lose their jobs, their savings, and often their confidence in the American system. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Corporate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corporate" is used about 4,574 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4,574 | 2,140 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Corporate Express Australia Limited | United Kingdom | Corporate Synergy Holdings P.L.C. |
| USA | Corporate Executive Board Co | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "corporate": body corporate ♦ corporate action ♦ corporate body ♦ corporate bond ♦ corporate capacity ♦ corporate culture ♦ corporate enterprise ♦ corporate executive ♦ corporate funds ♦ corporate income tax ♦ corporate incorporated ♦ corporate information systems officer ♦ corporate investor ♦ corporate manager ♦ Corporate member ♦ corporate name ♦ corporate planning ♦ corporate policy ♦ corporate profits ♦ corporate property ♦ corporate raider ♦ corporate responsibility ♦ corporate strategy ♦ corporate tax ♦ corporate trust ♦ county corporate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "corporate": corporate-based, corporate-bond, corporate-borrowing, corporate-centred, corporate-disguised-as-consumer, corporate-finance, corporate-governance, corporate-induced, corporate-level, corporate-owned, corporate-planning, corporate-sector, corporate-strategy, corporate-style, corporate-tax, corporate-trousered, corporate-wide. | |
Ending with "corporate": non-corporate. | |
Containing "corporate": noise-grunge-new-wave-of-alternative-corporate-underground-anarcho-core-punk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "corporate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i përbashkët (collective, common, communal, concerted, joint, mutual, United), i korporatës. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | корпоративен, общ (aggregate, blanket, broad, collective, common, communal, general, generic, global, impersonal, joint, omnibus, overall, solid, total, wide). (various references) | |
Chinese | 公司 (Companies, Company, corp, Corporately, Corporation, inc). (various references) | |
Czech | korporaèní. (various references) | |
Danish | organ (organ), aktieselskab (company with share capital, corporate enterprise, corporation, public limited company, stock corporation), ejerandelsbeviser i selskaber med aktie-eller andelskapital,hvor disse ejerandelsbeviser ikke er frit omsættelige (all forms of equities in corporate enterprises which are not freely negotiable), enkeltmandsvirksomhed,som omdannes til et selskab,og hvis formue overføres til sektoren ikke-finansielle selskaber og selskabslignende foretagender (shift to the sector non-financial corporate and quasi-corporate enterprise of the capital of a sole proprietorship which becomes a corporate enterprise), generaldirektoer (corporate manager, executive director, general manager), holdingselskaber,som styrer en gruppe af virksomheder,hvoraf størsteparten er klassificeret som ikke-finansielle selskaber og selskabslignende foretagender (holding companies directing a group of companies the majority of which are classified as non-financial corporate and quasi-corporate enterprises), indkomst betalt til det offentlige fra offentlige virksomheder,der betragtes som selvstændige enheder,men som ikke formelt er egentlige selskaber (but not formally constituted as corporate enterprises, income paid to general government by public enterprises recognized as independent legal entities), kapitalselskab (company with share capital, corporate enterprise, corporation), korporation (corporate body, corporation, public body, public corporation, public-law body, statutory body, statutory corporation), aktier og andre ejerrettigheder,som det offentlige har erhvervet i selskaber (shares and other equities in corporate enterprises purchased by general government), offentlig virksomhed (corporate body, corporation, public body, public corporation, public-law body, regie, statutory body, statutory corporation), virkomhedskultur (corporate culture, culture), rubrikken aktier,anparter og andre ejerandelsbeviser omfatter de fordringer,der giver ret til en del af det eventuelle udbytte i selskaber,dvs.hos juridiske personer,offentlige selskaber,som har en vedtaegt,som goer dem til selvstaendige juridiske persone (the heading shares and other equities groups together financial assets which entitle the holders to a share in the profits of corporate and quasi-corporate enterprises and to a share in the net assets of these enterprises in the event of liquidation), sektoren husholdninger omfatter enkeltpersoner eller grupper af enkeltpersoner,baade i deres egenskab af forbrugere og i deres eventuelle egenskab af foretagere,saafremt sidstnaevnte virksomhedikke udoeves af saerskilte og som selskabslignende foretagende (in the latter case, the corresponding activities are not those of separate entities treated as quasi-corporate enterprises, the households sector covers individuals or groups of individuals as consumers and possibly also as entrepreneurs provided that), sektoren ikke-finansielle selskaber og selskabslignende foretagender omfatter foretagender,som er institutionelle enheder-dvs.foretagender,hvis fordelingstransaktioner og finansielle transaktioner er adskilt fra deres ejeres-og hvis hovedfunktion bestaar (the sector non-financial corporate and quasi-corporate enterprises consists of enterprises which are institutional units-i.e.enterprises whose distributive and financial transactions are distinct from those of their owners-and which are principally engage), selskab med aktie-eller andelskapital (company with share capital, corporate enterprise, corporation), selskabsskat (corporate income tax, corporation tax, federal income tax, income taxes), stiftelse (corporate body, corporation, foundation, public-law body), udstyr og modernisering til virksomheder,som ikke er selskaber eller selskabslignende foretagender (equipment and modernisation grants to business other than corporate or quasi-corporate enterprises), ved ikke-finansielle selskaber forstaas alle foretagender,der er juridiske personer,og hvis hovedfunktion bestaar i at producere ikke-finansielle markedsmaessige varer og tjenester (the term non-financial corporate enterprises denotes all bodies recognized as independent legal entities, whose main activity is the production of goods and non-financial market services), ved ikke-finansielle selskabslignende foretagender forstaas alle foretagender,som ikke er juridiske personer,og hvis hovedfunktion bestaar i at producere ikke-finansielle markedsmaessige varer og tjenester,for saa vidt deres oekonomiske og finansielle adf (public companies and public corporations, the term non-financial quasi-corporate enterprises denotes all bodies without independent legal status which are primarily engaged in the production of goods and non-financial market services, to the extent that their economic and financial behaviour is different from that of their owners and is similar to that of private companies), kortfristede omsættelige anvisninger udstedt af finansielle institutioner og eventuelt ikke-finansielle selskaber og selskabslignende foretagender,især indskudsbeviser og sparebeviser (especially negotiable deposit certificates and savings certificates, negotiable short term bills issued by credit institutions and sometimes by certain non-financial corporate and quasi-corporate enterprises). (various references) | |
Dutch | bedrijfsmissie. (various references) | |
Farsi | یکی شده , دارای شخصیت حقوقی , بصورت شرکت درامده . (various references) | |
Finnish | yritysvaltaaja (corporate raider, raider), yhteisövero (corporate income tax, corporation tax, federal income tax), pääomayhtiö (company with share capital, corporate enterprise, corporation). (various references) | |
French | Corporate, conjoint (conjoint, conjunct, in common), social (company, companyof), limité, entreprise/de l'. (various references) | |
German | firmen-. (various references) | |
Greek | σωματειακόσ, συσσωματωμένοσ (incorporated), συνεταιρικόσ (of a partner), συντεχνιακόσ, συλλογικόσ (collective, joint), ηνωμένοσ (consolidated), εταιρικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משותף (common, joint, mutual, shared), מאוגד. (various references) | |
Hungarian | testületi (corporative, incorporative, syndicate), egyesített (allied, combined, conjugate, integrated, joint, one, United). (various references) | |
Italian | costituito, corporativo, collettivo (collective), sociale (social), aziendale (operational, operationally, within the company). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 社風 (company climate or spirit, corporate culture, the way a company does things), 事業本部 (corporate HQ), メスバウアー効果 (corporate patronage of the arts and culture, Methodist, Moessbauer effect), 法人所得 (corporate income), 法人 (corporate body, corporation, juridicalperson), 会社更生法 (Corporate Rehabilitation Law), 企業プラン (corporate plan), 企業戦略 (corporate strategy), 企業内教育 (corporate in-service training), コーヒー豆 (call, call broker, call girl, call loan, call money, call rate, call sign, call-back, called, called game, choir exercises, chorus, chorus girl, coal tar, coffee bean, Cohen, cola, cold, cold beef, cold chain, cold chicken, cold coffee, cold cream, cold meat, cold permanent wave, cold war, cold wave, coleslaw, coop, coral, coral island, cord, corded velveteen, corduroy, corporate identity, corporated house, corporation, corpse, Koran). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | メセナ (corporate patronage of the arts and culture), きぎょうないきょういく (corporate in-service training), きぎょうぷらん (corporate plan), きぎょうせんりゃく (corporate strategy), しゃふう (company climate or spirit, corporate culture, the way a company does things, winter street dust), ほうじんしょとく (corporate income), ほうじん (corporate body, corporation, fellow countryman, Japanese, juridicalperson, magic square, square formation), かいしゃこうせいほう (Corporate Rehabilitation Law), コーポレートアイデンティティー (corporate identity), じぎょうほんぶ (corporate HQ). (various references) | |
Korean | 법인. (various references) | |
Manx | cochorpagh (burgess). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orporatecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | coletivo (aggregate, collective, public), associado (affiliate, affiliated, associate, combined, companion, conjoint, conjunct, consolidated, co-participant, fellow traveller, incorporate, incorporated, joint, member, partner, united). (various references) | |
Romanian | corporativ (corporative), de corporaţie. (various references) | |
Russian | корпоративный (corporative). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | korporativan, akcionarski (joint stock). (various references) | |
Spanish | corporativo, colectivo (aggregate, collecting, collective, group, jitney, joint, lot, minibus, taxi, union). (various references) | |
Swedish | gemensam (collective, common, communal, concerted, joint, mutual, United). (various references) | |
Turkish | toplu (collective, concerted, holo-, roundabout, whole), tüzel (incorporate, incorporated, judical, juridical, legal), birleşmiş (associate, associated, consolidated, fasciated, incorporate, incorporated, joint, United), şirkete ait. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спільний (aggregate, collective, common, conjoint, encyclical, joint, mutual, simultaneous), корпоративний. (various references) | |
Welsh | corfforaethol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corporate": corporately. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "corporate": anticorporate, incorporate, intercorporate, noncorporate, reincorporate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "corporate": incorporated, incorporates, reincorporated, reincorporates, unincorporated. (additional references) | |
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"Corporate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caproate, cooporate, coporate, Corocraft, coroprate, corparate, corperate, corporat, corporated, corporist, corprate, corrborate, corrorate, icorporate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corporate" (pronounced kô"rperut or kô"rprut) |
| 4 | -p er u t | disparate, intemperate. |
| 3 | -er u t | accurate, barbiturate, commensurate, confederate, conglomerate, considerate, illiterate, inaccurate, degenerate, deliberate, directorate, doctorate, electorate, emirate, favorite, inspectorate, inveterate, literate, moderate, protectorate, triumvirate. |
| 7 | k ô" r p r u t | noncorporate. |
| 4 | -p r u t | culprit, desperate, interpret, reinterpret, temperate. |
| 3 | -r u t | beret, carat, carrot, curate, demerit, elaborate, ferret, garret, inherit, invertebrate, karat, merit, parrot, pirate, portrait, secret, spirit, supersecret. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: operator. | |
-2 letters: carport, corpora, creator, porrect, praetor, proctor, prorate, reactor, trooper. | |
-3 letters: capote, captor, carper, carpet, carrot, carter, cartop, coater, cooper, cooter, copter, crater, orator, parrot, poorer, porter, prater, preact, pretor, protea, raptor, rector, report, rooter, toecap, torero, torpor, tracer, trocar. | |
-4 letters: actor, aport, apter, caper, carer, caret, carte, cater, coapt, cooer, coopt, coper. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: baroceptor, cooperator, percolator, procaryote, procreator. | |
+2 letters: arthroscope, baroceptors, cooperators, corporately, corporative, crapshooter, incorporate, percolators, predoctoral, procaryotes, procreation, procreators, protectoral, prothoraces, provocateur. | |
+3 letters: arthroscopes, baroreceptor, carrottopped, contemporary, corporeality, crapshooters, incorporated, incorporates, macropterous, noncorporate, procreations, protectorate, provocateurs, reciprocator, velociraptor. | |
+4 letters: anticorporate, arthroscopies, baroreceptors, chromatophore, chronotherapy, containerport, corporalities, cotransported, incorporative, noncooperator, precopulatory, prosecutorial, protectorates, reciprocation, reciprocators, reincorporate, velociraptors. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Company Usage 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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