corporate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CORPORATE, adjective [Latin , to be shaped into a body, body.] 1. United in a body, or community, as a number of individuals, who are empowered to transact business as an individual; formed into a body; as a corporate assembly, or society; a corporate town. 2. United; general; collectively one. They answer in a corporate voice.
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