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connected with a large business company 公司的 corporate finance/profits/tax 公司财务/利润/税收 corporate executives/clients/sponsors 公司高管/客户/赞助商 corporate identity (= the image of a company, which all its members share) 公司形象 corporate hospitality (= when companies entertain customers to help develop good business relationships) 公司对顾客的热情招待 initiatives to improve standards of corporate governance 提高公司治理标准的举措 the prevailing mood in the boardrooms of corporate America 美国公司董事会的主流情绪 Their corporate headquarters are in Boston. 他们的公司总部在波士顿。
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forming a corporation (= an organization or group of organizations that is recognized by law as a single unit) 组成公司（或团体）的；法人的 The BBC is a corporate organization. BBC是一个企业组织。 The law applies both to individuals and to corporate bodies. 法律既适用于个人，也适用于法人团体。
involving or shared by all the members of a group 社团的；全体的；共同的 a corporate act of worship in the College chapel 大学教堂的集体礼拜
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare ‘form into a body’, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’.