corporate

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  1. adjective Formed into a corporation; incorporated: the corporate companies of industrial America.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a corporation: corporate assets; corporate culture.
  3. adjective United or combined into one body; collective: made a corporate effort to finish the job.

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  • Meanwhile, AIG reported a huge loss of $61.7 billion in the fourth quarter-the largest in American corporate history. —  BusinessWeek.com --
  • The US government Monday unveiled a fresh rescue plan worth 30 billion dollars to help AIG stave off collapse as the ailing insurer revealed the biggest loss in American corporate history.
  • WASHINGTON - Taxpayers will take a nearly 78 percent ownership stake in insurer American International Group, the Treasury Department announced early Monday, in a bailout revamp that could provide another $30 billion to AIG as the troubled giant posted a mind-numbing quarterly loss of $61.7 billion - the largest in American corporate history. —  Latest News
  • We are now in the midst of a tidal wave of anti-corporate, anti-Wall Street and anti-capitalist hysteria. —  American Thinker
  • For example, AIG posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history - $61.7 billion - for the final three months of last year. —  Money and Markets: Free Investment Email Newsletter
 

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  1. Latin corporātus, past participle of corporāre, to make into a body, from corpus, corpor-, body; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare, make into a body, from corpus (corpor-), body: see corpse.
  2. from Latin corporatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ˈkɔrpərət/
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