corporate

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 26.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to an institution; institutional.

   The one on Seventh Street is a corporate franchise.

2. adjective Formed into a institution; incorporated.
3. adjective Unified into one body; collective.

   the corporate authorship of the working group

4. adjective Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from an institution.

   It's not that their interior decorating is horrible; it's just that, well, it's so corporate.

5. noun A bond issued by an institution.
6. noun A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
7. noun An institution that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.

   McDonald's corporate issued a new policy today.

8. noun An institution or group.

Similar words

incorporated joint collective organized material incarnate corporeal corporal bodied embodied

Often followed by

governance and income tax culture headquarters strategy bonds finance management

Word family

corporately corporates corporation corporations