Corporate Members Business Adjective ˈkɔːpərət ˈkɔːrpərət Finance/Profits/Tax Executives/Clients/Sponsors

• corporate finance/profits/tax
• corporate executives/clients/sponsors
• corporate identity (= the image of a company, which all its members share)
• corporate hospitality (= when companies entertain customers to help develop good business relationships)

corporate

1. connected with a large business company
• corporate finance/profits/tax
• corporate executives/clients/sponsors
• corporate identity (= the image of a company, which all its members share)
• corporate hospitality (= when companies entertain customers to help develop good business relationships)
• initiatives to improve standards of corporate governance
• the prevailing mood in the boardrooms of corporate America
• Their corporate headquarters are in Boston.
2. forming a corporation (= an organization or group of organizations that is recognized by law as a single unit)
• The BBC is a corporate organization.
• The law applies both to individuals and to corporate bodies.
3. involving or shared by all the members of a group
• a corporate act of worship in the College chapel

Word Origin

• late 15th cent.: from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare ‘form into a body’, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’.