1. relating to a corporation, especially a large company or group: "airlines are very keen on their corporate identity"
▪ (of a company or group of people) authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law: "local authorities, like other corporate bodies, may reduce capital spending"
▪ of or shared by all the members of a group:"the service emphasizes the corporate responsibility of the congregation"
noun
1. a corporate company or group.
Word Originlate 15th century: from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare ‘form into a body’, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’.