/ ˈkɔːpərət; NAmE ˈkɔːrp-/ adjective [ only before noun ]
1.
connected with a corporation :
corporate finance / planning / strategy
corporate identity (= the image of a company, that all its members share)
corporate hospitality (= when companies entertain customers to help develop good business relationships)
2.
( technical ) forming a corporation :
The BBC is a corporate body .
The law applies to both individuals and corporate bodies.
3.
involving or shared by all the members of a group :
corporate responsibility
••
WORD ORIGIN
late 15th cent.: from Latin corporatus , past participle of corporare form into a body, from corpus , corpor- body.