{
    "term": "corporate",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "connected with a large business company",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**corporate finance/profits/tax**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**corporate executives/clients/sponsors**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**corporate identity** *(= the image of a company, which all its members share)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**corporate hospitality** *(= when companies entertain customers to help develop good business relationships)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "initiatives to improve standards of **corporate governance**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the prevailing mood in the boardrooms of **corporate America**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their **corporate headquarters** are in Boston."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "forming a corporation (= an organization or group of organizations that is recognized by law as a single unit)",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The BBC is a corporate organization."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The law applies both to individuals and to **corporate bodies**."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "involving or shared by all the members of a group",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a corporate act of worship in the College chapel"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɔːpərət/",
                "audio": "co/corporate/corporate__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɔːrpərət/",
                "audio": "co/corporate/corporate__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent.: from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare ‘form into a body’, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’."
}