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Corporate vs Company - What's the difference?

corporate | company |

In obsolete intransitive terms the difference between corporate and company

is that corporate is to become incorporated while company is to have sexual intercourse.

As nouns the difference between corporate and company

is that corporate is a bond issued by a corporation while company is a team; a group of people who work together professionally.

As verbs the difference between corporate and company

is that corporate is to incorporate while company is to accompany, keep company with.

As an adjective corporate

is of or relating to a corporation.

corporate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a corporation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
  • Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
  • Unified into one body; collective.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They answer in a joint and corporate voice.

    Derived terms

    * corporate anorexia * corporate censorship * corporate executive * corporate image * corporate income tax * corporate ladder * corporate monster * corporate nationalism * corporate officer * corporate seal * corporate tax * corporate veil * corporately

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) A bond issued by a corporation
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 11, Robert D. Hershey Jr., Look Past 2008 Stars for Gains in Bonds, New York Times, url=
  • , passage=So-called junk corporates and emerging-market debt remain generally out of favor. }}

    Verb

    (corporat)
  • (obsolete) To incorporate.
  • (Stow)
  • (obsolete) To become incorporated.
  • company

    Noun

  • A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
  • # A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
  • # (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , chapter=30, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
  • # A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
  • # (label) The entire crew of a ship.
  • # (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.
  • (label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Robert Barr, authorlink=Robert Barr (writer), title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation
  • , year=1913, passage=“
  • (label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
  • * {{quote-magazine, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
  • , volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title=Money just makes the rich suffer citation
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , title=Obama goes troll-hunting citation
  • (label) Social visitors or companions.
  • *
  • * '>citation
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • (label) Companionship.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company . When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

    Synonyms

    * corporation

    Derived terms

    * a man is known by the company he keeps * British East India Company * companiate * company clinic * company doctor * company front * company man * company officer * company seal * company-specific risk * company store * company time * company town * company union * fast company * fire company * growth company * holding company * in-company * incorporated company * insurance company * intracompany * investment company * joint-stock company * keep somebody company * listed company * limited liability company * livery company * management company * mixed company * mutual company * offshore company * parent company * present company excepted * private company * quoted company * shell company * ship's company * sister company * stock company * the company * title company * touring company * trust company * * you don't dip your pen in company ink

    Verb

  • (archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
  • Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
  • it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
  • (archaic) To associate.
  • * Bible, Acts i. 21
  • Men which have companied with us all the time.
  • (obsolete) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse.
  • (Bishop Hall)

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