Crossword clues for corporate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
corporate
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a corporate client (=a big company or a group of companies)
▪ Our law firm represents numerous corporate clients.
corporate crime (=involving businesses)
▪ Those responsible for corporate crime often escape punishment.
corporate entertaining (=for business reasons)
▪ The hotel is used for corporate entertaining .
corporate hospitality
▪ the use of a yacht for corporate hospitality
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
affair
▪ Tony Armstrong, director of corporate affairs at Northern Rock, defended the company's poor performance.
▪ Specialists such as those in public and corporate affairs or financial public relations can expect even higher salaries.
body
▪ As a lecturer, Mr. Page became a member of the university which is a corporate body regulated by Royal Charter.
▪ General Motors provides but one of many examples of that malady in the corporate body.
▪ Corporate bodies Numbers in brackets indicate that a corporate body or its activities are discussed in the document concerned.
▪ Being a representative of a corporation is difficult and partly dependent on status within the corporate body.
▪ It is not a separate corporate body distinct from the dominant social elites.
▪ We are considering the rights of individuals as against the rights of the state and of corporate bodies.
▪ Because, she said, she wanted to devolve power to the individual, not to corporate bodies.
client
▪ They can not at the same time absorb and spread the credit risks of their corporate clients as well.
▪ The needs of private personal injury clients may be very different to those of insurers and corporate clients.
▪ Porter Monday and begin advising corporate clients on how to lobby the government.
▪ At the moment the product is restricted to interest rates and to medium or big corporate clients.
▪ He represented major corporate clients, from BankAmerica Corp. to Crowley Maritime.
▪ The two companies have used discounting to pry corporate clients from each other in what today is a domestic duopoly.
▪ Gerald Ford shills for corporate clients.
crime
▪ Indifference rather than intention may be the cause of greater human suffering, particularly with regard to corporate crime.
▪ This raging epidemic of corporate crime is nothing new.
▪ In order to be effective, the level of intervention to regulate corporate crime has to be organizational rather than individual.
▪ The practice fosters corporate crime, and the governing ethic-that public service ought not be parlayed into private profitis often eclipsed.
▪ There are numerous cases of corporate crime causing injury and death.
▪ Although the crimes of criminal corporations are clearly serious, they should be kept analytically separate from corporate crime.
▪ The final glimmer comes from recent attempts to develop novel strategies for controlling corporate crime.
culture
▪ An individual's scope for modifying it will inevitably be heavily influenced by site and corporate culture.
▪ In the organizational hierarchy of the past, middle managers were the people who remembered things, who passed on corporate culture.
▪ Excellent companies have strong corporate cultures and organisational values.
▪ What is less clear is whether these are national cultural differences, differences in the use of language and/or corporate culture influences.
▪ Flocks of executives entered the company from competing firms, bringing different styles, values, and corporate cultures with them.
▪ The management of corporate culture is expensive of time to do it - the endless meetings that people participate in.
▪ Some corporate cultures are so rigid that they require absolute obedience to the corporate line.
customer
▪ Large corporate customers pay interest on overdrafts at the bank's base rate plus 1%.
▪ Rosenbluth Travel redefined its business by creating new information services that were attractive to its corporate customers.
▪ All types of insurances are handled both for personal and corporate customers.
▪ The Commonwealth Bank immediately announced that its rate for leading corporate customers would be reduced from 16.5 percent to 15.5 percent.
▪ Some of Hong Kong's biggest companies want their waste properly treated, to please corporate customers in greener-minded countries.
▪ For example, large corporate customers have the option of volume usage discounts.
earnings
▪ Nor is there any sign of a pick-up in corporate earnings this year.
▪ If the economy falters in 1996, corporate earnings will be hard-pressed to match the performance of the past few years.
▪ At the moment, optimism over interest rates is being offset by pessimism about the direction of corporate earnings.
▪ He expects stocks to continue to march higher, benefiting from falling rates and decent corporate earnings.
▪ According to Mazur, corporate earnings here are healthy.
▪ But the relief was expected to be short-lived, because the economy and corporate earnings are still hurting.
executive
▪ How would he and Georgina change their lifestyle after all those years as a corporate executive?
▪ How do you measure how good corporate executives are at communicating and being honest?
▪ A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.
▪ Which is why corporate executives are turning to speech coaches in droves.
▪ The Black-Scholes model also is widely used for valuing the stock options in the compensation packages of corporate executives.
▪ For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
finance
▪ But, more generally, mergers represented the development of skills in the arts of corporate finance.
▪ Companies had long been the domain of commercial bankers and the corporate finance and equity departments of investment banks.
▪ So, for the right person, corporate finance is both a high-risk and high-reward career option.
▪ Then, in a breath, she said limp-wristed, overly groomed fellows on small salaries worked in corporate finance.
▪ He was joined by Anthony Fry, corporate finance partner in the Crawley office.
▪ Total fees and commissions fell to $ 204 million from $ 192 million, as corporate finance and lending fees fell.
▪ It may thus be that a client is a corporate finance client for some activities but not for others.
▪ Conventional corporate finance leads us to believe that debt financing is usually cheaper than equity financing.
governance
▪ Such reports can help to demonstrate publicly the company's commitment to high standards of corporate governance.
▪ In a recent survey, finance directors were asked what change they would most like to see in corporate governance.
▪ This culminated in the publication of the Cadbury report on corporate governance in May.
▪ They are likely to run from the sort of fight that makes good corporate governance stick.
▪ Fundamentally, the debate is about how to ensure effective corporate governance.
▪ It is appropriate that I here take the opportunity of welcoming the thrust of recent authoritative reports detailing guidelines for good corporate governance.
▪ We will monitor the further developments and pronouncements of the several bodies presently addressing the subjects of corporate governance and accounting standards.
▪ Last month the Cadbury Committee published its finalised report on corporate governance.
headquarters
▪ Moreover, the specialists are found in operations, not at corporate headquarters.
▪ The emerging trends for corporate headquarters staff are clear.
▪ Time and again we have seen large country houses taken over for institutional use, whether as corporate headquarters or hospitals.
▪ But as sales figures at the branch continued to improve, the thinking at corporate headquarters gradually started to come around.
▪ Havana has shifted its corporate headquarters.
▪ Louis, the corporate headquarters, is the only city named.
▪ Most corporate headquarters and bank branches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were open Tuesday after partial closures yesterday.
▪ At Starbucks' corporate headquarters, the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.
hospitality
▪ This buys them a livery package, plus use of the yacht for corporate hospitality and during Land Rover Cowes Week.
▪ A new concept in corporate hospitality is roadshows.
▪ Sailing as corporate hospitality took off about a decade ago, with companies looking for a new way of hosting events.
▪ The page following features a big and bold advertisement for corporate hospitality and entertainment.
▪ We have agents and corporate hospitality.
identity
▪ The Rentokil corporate identity has been updated for the 90's.
▪ What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity.
▪ The corporate identity image has been slow to disappear, with the old standard liveries lingering even on Intercity services.
▪ This last, where a new corporate identity has been developed and recently launched, is particularly important in international markets.
▪ Instinctive acceptance of a corporate identity for this constituency forced the party into an integrative role on two distinct but related fronts.
▪ The purpose of the letterhead is to produce a corporate identity.
▪ By the beginning of the eighteenth century the diplomats appeared to possess a kind of corporate identity.
▪ The projection of a corporate identity.
image
▪ Public relations and the building of corporate image are dealt with in a later chapter.
▪ The tradition of dressing up a corporate image in print runs deep at Investor Insight and its affiliates.
▪ It will make a great difference to our - er - corporate image, I feel sure.
▪ When analysed at this more fundamental level, the database will also give clear guidelines about overall corporate image.
▪ Also used to denote a specially styled company name designed as part of a corporate image.
▪ Any comments on uniforms or the Bank's corporate image in general would be welcomed by Bob McInnes.
▪ Benetton's advertising and photography is integrally linked to their corporate image making.
▪ Our newly created marketing team has identified customer requirements in major markets as well as helping us to redevelop our corporate image.
income
▪ They have not pumped up taxes; personal and corporate income taxes have remained at reasonable levels.
▪ The corporate income tax base was broadened while the tax rate was reduced.
▪ An increase in the top corporate income tax rate to 36 percent from the current 34 percent.
▪ For example, we have already cited the disagreement among the experts as to the incidence of the corporate income tax.
▪ Recall from Chapter 7 that the corporate income tax entails a problem of double taxation.
▪ That part of corporate income which is paid out as dividends is taxed twice.
▪ Exhibit 2. 1 summarizes the current federal corporate income tax rate.
ladder
▪ It is no accident that people who are driven to climb corporate ladders have parents who believe ladder climbing is important.
▪ The more that you let the former influence the corporate ladder, the less effective you and your company will be.
▪ There are many who rise up the corporate ladder by avoiding such risks.
life
▪ But his major contribution to the corporate life of the city was his work for the relief of the poor.
▪ So can a person caged in corporate life begin to assume huge anxieties about petty annoyances.
▪ The landowners had not been paid, the company went bankrupt and thereafter spent the rest of its corporate life in Chancery.
▪ Some well might advance further in corporate life than the OLs.
▪ More money makes corporate life easier.
▪ By doing so, they were able to meet the demands of corporate life and parent at the same time.
▪ For Lochlin and Sandy Reidy, corporate life and family life make a perfectly fine blend, and they should know.
▪ I even became so desperate that I thought of returning to corporate life.
management
▪ It all adds up to a better deal, for your managers, your training budget and for effective corporate management development.
▪ Individual decisions of corporate management may still turn out to have been wrong.
▪ Lost customers, dissatisfied corporate management, and lost data also were deemed significant.
▪ Internal customers were corporate management, marketing, and order processors.
▪ It impressed no-one at corporate management level.
▪ For corporate management, cost and productivity benchmarking identified work organization as the key to regaining their competitive advantage.
▪ In other authorities corporate management was combined with a new system of area management.
▪ When that viewpoint is outside the school it is of assistance to corporate management to weigh up its authority and seriousness.
manager
▪ He had risen to the post of corporate manager at the Ermine Business Park branch in Huntingdon.
▪ To some modern corporate managers, the unions, like steam-driven locomotives, are historical relics.
▪ But whatever its extent the power of corporate managers poses a problem of legitimacy.
▪ I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.
▪ The power conferred upon corporate managers by the business company was potentially unchecked and hence illegitimate within the framework of liberal democracy.
▪ The corporatist countervision argues that corporate managers are obliged to weigh the interests of a whole range of different constituents.
▪ Fiduciary duties depend for their enforcement on the shareholders taking action against the wrongdoing corporate managers.
▪ There are two views of the purposes for which corporate managers will use their expertise.
member
▪ Oki was the last remaining corporate member of the Mass860 consortium formed to support the chip and garner a software following.
▪ As regards membership, the region now has 93 corporate members and 56 personal members.
▪ Therefore, they perceived themselves as corporate members and experienced its power as essentially benevolent.
▪ Now the corporate member is the norm. 5.
▪ Constitution Membership of the council is open only to corporate members of the Association.
▪ Elections Only corporate members may participate in elections, either as candidate, proposer, seconder or voter.
▪ Any corporate member of a branch may nominate a candidate.
▪ The vacancies may be filled by any corporate member of the Association regardless of location.
network
▪ For all practical purposes, it has a nationwide corporate network, just like the big firms.
plan
▪ How are the project plans aligned with the corporate plan?
▪ The corporate plan is therefore built up along the same lines as the organisational hierarchy.
▪ This was particularly true of government approval of corporate plans during the 1970s.
▪ These come into play after corporate plans have been formulated and are concerned with implementing them.
▪ When I say corporate plan, I don't necessarily mean you have to live with it rigidly.
▪ You can usually tell an organisation that has a clear corporate plan but very little vision about the future.
▪ Non-financial criteria will be used to ensure that the potential new products are such as to contribute to the corporate plan.
▪ But two years ago the idea popped up again, as part of the Lucas Aerospace workers' alternative corporate plan.
planning
▪ It is important not to read Quinn as calling for the destruction of formal corporate planning or rational analysis.
▪ In addition to the informal discussions, corporate planning departments require knowledge of the business environments for their formal roles in the planning process.
▪ The directors of the seven remaining companies agreed to interviews of their corporate planning managers or themselves.
▪ And this normally will not be in some remote centralised corporate planning department.
▪ Consequently, the arguments presented in this section should not be used to dismiss centralized corporate planning.
▪ In fact, many corporate planning departments were significantly reduced in size or even abandoned around this time.
▪ The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department.
▪ Nevertheless, whether corporate planning has become a reality is a separate issue.
power
▪ The rise of corporate power is a direct result of governments' actively adopting neoliberal economic policies.
▪ Broadcast television is available only to monstrous corporate powers.
▪ What troubles their detractors, however, is the corporate power with which they have become inextricably linked.
▪ As a man of corporate power, he was also exceedingly visible.
▪ But it is surely not hard to see that consumer choice is an inadequate means of curbing corporate power.
▪ Even the cardinals' corporate powers lay in the future in 1215.
▪ It does not say anything explicit about the legitimacy of corporate power in relation to society generally.
▪ This is because the more modern justification for corporate power is assumed.
profit
▪ Consumers, investors and workers have all threatened corporate profit in different ways, with varying degrees of success.
▪ Interest rates are low, inflation seems whipped, job growth is strong, corporate profits are soaring.
▪ Restrictions on the repatriation of private and corporate profits and capital were also lifted.
▪ Meanwhile, private investment will remain strong, propelled by a 14 % increase in corporate profits in 1995.
▪ The dashed lines show the effect of the corporate profits tax, to which we now turn.
▪ Analysts generally agree that the fundamental economic factors that produce corporate profits remain strong.
▪ With discounting becoming rampant, what is good for the consumer will be bad for corporate profits.
▪ Finally, one indicator suggested interest rates may be headed still higher, eventually eating into corporate profits.
sector
▪ There will be no outcry from the corporate sector about the disarray in the accountancy profession.
▪ Hence, everyone is financially vulnerable and insecure except those close to the center of the corporate sector.
▪ As remarked earlier, to treat the corporate sector as acting perfectly competitively is a particularly unsatisfactory assumption.
▪ Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom.
▪ This extreme version of the distrust of government has often been manipulated by the corporate sector to block passage of government regulation.
▪ So we are now getting it back into the corporate sector.
▪ For example, the modelling of the corporate sector, particularly allowing for imperfect competition, is likely to pose formidable problems.
sponsor
▪ The Festival Trust represents many corporate sponsors, whose commitment has been crucial in developing this international celebration of the arts.
▪ Gage proposed cutting costs by using volunteers for the labor and corporate sponsors for the equipment.
▪ So check with your hotel or corporate sponsor in advance about possible child-care arrangements.
▪ The rest of the journey, a reward for super-achievement, will be underwritten by corporate sponsors.
▪ Exhibits set up by corporate sponsors fill most of the space in Centennial Olympic Park downtown.
▪ Amway, the door-to-door retailing giant, became a corporate sponsor, as did the E.&038;.
▪ And 3Com just inked its long-awaited deal to become the corporate sponsor of Candlestick Park through January 2000.
▪ The agreement also gives the supervisors the final say over the corporate sponsor should the contract between the 49ers and 3Com unravel.
strategy
▪ States must choose, in industrial policy as in corporate strategy, between diversification and specialisation.
▪ However, goals in Workplace 2000 will be dictated by competitive require-ments and corporate strategy.
▪ He stresses that formal planning can only be one of the many building blocks which determine corporate strategy.
▪ In their view, corporate strategies fail because they consider problems in the external environment but not those internal to the organization.
▪ How they strike a balance between the two is at the heart of corporate strategy.
▪ This belief will call for radical changes in employment, management and corporate strategy.
▪ Patents on life-forms are the key to this corporate strategy.
▪ Figure 2 contrasts competitive and corporate strategy.
structure
▪ The firm's corporate structure was flattened, just as business-school gurus recommend.
▪ What they envision is nothing short of a new corporate structure, in which accounting and other functions are outsourced.
▪ Although this picture no longer accurately reflects the reality of many modern corporate structures, legal rules still rest upon the old idea.
▪ The foamless Concept could be the big new product for a company with a new corporate structure and a new management.
▪ In the post-Bains era corporate structures have been widely adopted.
▪ This task is actually easier outside the old hierarchical corporate structure, where information was compartmentalized and unrelated contexts kept strictly separate.
▪ Many companies have considerably slimmed down and changed their corporate structures.
▪ Idei is overhauling a corporate structure Sony introduced in mid-1994 when its fortunes were at a low ebb.
tax
▪ Where T is the proportional corporate tax rate. 2.
▪ According to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, corporate tax breaks in the 1995 fiscal year might reach 60 billion.
▪ The great corporate tax rebate mirrors the great corporate handout.
▪ At the same time the general corporate tax rate was cut from 46 to its present 34 percent.
▪ The existence of a mark-up has to be taken into account when considering the response to a corporate tax.
▪ The investee corporation must pay corporate taxes on its income before paying out dividends-this is the first tax.
▪ We are considering the effect of increasing an already existing corporate tax.
▪ The first day of the conference is to be devoted to corporate tax issues affecting national and multinational corporations.
welfare
▪ Among others pledging to fight corporate welfare were consumer activist Ralph Nader, Sens.
▪ But this raises the politically touchy issue of corporate welfare.
▪ And the administration tactfully distanced itself from Reich when he said any welfare reform ought to include corporate welfare as well.
world
▪ Drucker selects the metaphor of orchestra as the model for the corporate world to follow but the conclusions are much the same.
▪ If the corporate world is wrong, some spectacular failures could result.
▪ Second comes his adoration for the corporate world.
▪ Scores of less famous graduates ascended to the top levels of the financial and corporate worlds.
▪ Finniston maintains there is inescapable evidence that the corporate world has become more selfish and self-seeking.
▪ Dad, a Dartmouth graduate, was very successful in the corporate world.
▪ Laing feels the problem is exacerbated by the tendency today for the corporate world to live in the short term.
▪ Adams' focus on the corporate world is a reflection of his own life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a huge corporate farm
▪ Ad campaigns are used to both bolster sales and improve corporate image.
▪ Fisher, 37, will be responsible for corporate planning.
▪ The company's moving its corporate headquarters from St. Louis to Atlanta.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A growing number had already been worrying about the social and corporate consequences of such massive restructurings.
▪ All types of insurances are handled both for personal and corporate customers.
▪ Prioritizing corporate crime has to be set in context.
▪ The emerging trends for corporate headquarters staff are clear.
▪ There is nobody at the helm of the corporate ship, because there is no helm.
▪ This book deals mainly with the purchase of business assets from a corporate vendor by a corporate purchaser.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corporate
Corporate \Cor"po*rate\ (k?r"p?-r?t), a. [L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See Corpse.]
Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. ``Corporate property.''
--Hallam.-
United; general; collectively one.
They answer in a joint and corporate voice.
--Shak.Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board.
Corporate
Corporate \Cor"po*rate\ (-r?t), v. t. To incorporate. [Obs.] -- Stow.
Corporate
Corporate \Cor"po*rate\, v. i. To become incorporated. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
corporate
early 15c., "united in one body," from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare "form into a body," from corpus (genitive corporis) "body" (see corporeal).
Wiktionary
corporate
Of or relating to a corporation. n. (context finance English) A bond issued by a corporation v
1 (context obsolete transitive English) To incorporate. 2 (context obsolete intransitive English) To become incorporated.
WordNet
corporate
adj. of or belonging to a corporation; "corporate rates"; "corporate structure"
possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate]
done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good" [syn: collective]
organized and maintained as a legal corporation; "a special agency set up in corporate form"; "an incorporated town" [syn: incorporated]
Wikipedia
Corporate (disambiguation)
Corporate may refer to either
- A corporation, a type of legal entity, often formed to conduct business
- Corporate (film), a 2006 Bollywood film starring Bipasha Basu.
Corporate (film)
Corporate is a Bollywood film released in July 2006. The film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar stars Bipasha Basu, Kay Kay Menon, Payal Rohatgi, Minissha Lamba and Raj Babbar. The movie revolves around the power game between two powerful industrialists. And based on the Pesticides issue in India on 2003 when Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment published a disputed report finding pesticide levels in Coke and Pepsi soft drinks sold in India at levels 30 times that considered safe by the European Economic Commission. The movie got acclaimed from critics. It grossed 163.8 million at box office, well above its 40 million budget.
Usage examples of "corporate".
The fanciful accusation was put out on a Bechtel Corporation news release, but hey, a corporate press release is better than a fact.
Some called him a savage because of his corporate takeover practices, but to Benoit, on that first evening, he was a charming savage.
With the so-called Mattie movement on the upswing with its call for a bioregional approach to human ecology and an end to faceless corporate exploitation, the Pacific Northwest, long a Mattie stronghold, has assumed enormous political importance.
One of the largest corporate grants came from Harcourt Biosciences, to pay for a cutting-edge nanotech complex.
Afterward, it develops that he and Colo have for years been doing a fraudulent juggling act with corporate funds, channeling vast sums into the as yet undisclosed conspiracy.
In the days of my youth the Religion of Humanity was a term commonly applied to Comtism, the theory of certain rationalists who worshipped corporate mankind as a Supreme Being.
He also said that his countercultural roots often left him feeling like an outsider in the corporate world of which he is now a leader.
Because the same data you received yesterday is in locked-down launch configuration at fifty places in the Landfall dataflow, preprogrammed for high-impact delivery into every corporate stack in the Cartel.
There was a slight jostling and for the next few steps, a smiling Ghost let deutschmarks, corporate scrip, coins, and credsticks dribble from his fingers.
Towneites had started to call the area after a long bad summer for corporate downsizing and selling real estate.
Liang Corporate helo, a silent eggbeater design favored for its smooth ride, and tried to hold herself together.
FargoBank had recently launched a new investment scheme entirely focused upon top-end electrotechnical corporates: the big AI owners.
Furthermore Gimlet knows that what would make me the happiest corporate liability trouble shooter in the history of the planet earth would be to kill my father and that I will kill my father and bathe in his blood as soon as I can do it without maybe getting caught or found guilty at it, maybe when he is retired and my mother is weak, and Gimlet promises to help me and to kill her stepfather as well and she fellates me and lets me burn her sometimes.
Surrounding the city, linking the seven corporate complexes with the City Center hub, the magnetic levitation line that Fiddleback had used as a dimensional gate to invade the city stood tall and looked quite benign.
Please call Karl Nazarian of Corporate Archives and say Chief Gregoire and I would like to confer with him immediately.