/kawr"peuh ray'tiv, -peuhr euh tiv, -preuh-/ , adj.
1. of or pertaining to a corporation.
2. of or pertaining to a political system under which the principal economic functions, as banking, industry, or labor, are organized as corporate unities.
Also, corporate .
[ 1825-35; corporativus, equiv. to L corporat ( us ) CORPORATE + -ivus -IVE ]