■ adjective
1》 relating to a large company or group.
↘ Law (of a large company or group) authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law.
2》 of or shared by all the members of a group.
■ noun a ~ company or group.
Derivatives
~ly adverb
Origin
C15: from L. corporat- , corporare 'form into a body', from corpus , corpor- 'body'.