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🏢 To make like a business 🤝 To organize by groups
to corporatize

to corporatize

1 7.5
To make an organization work like a company, focusing on profit and efficiency
  • verb
  • /ˈkɔːr.pə.rə.taɪz/
  • Formal
translation icon : corporativizar
  • The reason that neither our government food protection agencies nor independent scientists can properly investigate the long-term impact of genetically modified food is that scientific research into food safety and its effect on public health has been hijacked and corporatized.

Examples

  • What struck me was the amazing amounts of money that had gone into streamlining and corporatizing your experience, plasticizing the menus, blown-up pictures of the food, fake decorator items, and how little was spent on the food, the plating, or the experience of eating.

    Blog text (33)

  • No matter how corporatizing our school system will destroy the creativity and ingenuity that Americans are known for.

    Blog text (8)

  • So that that's those sorts of like corporate corporatized leadership mechanisms.

  • In the past few years, NGOs have also been increasingly corporatized and commercialized, with little accountability and commitment to challenge entrenched economic and political interests.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The government decided to corporatize the public transport system to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

  • Many universities are starting to corporatize their operations in order to compete for funding and resources.

  • Through efforts to corporatize, the management aimed to enhance profitability and streamline operations.

Synonyms

to commercialize
vsto corporatize
  • US
18 6.7

To make something for sale or use it mainly to make money

change an organization to run like a large business focused on efficiency and profit

How Corporatized

to commercialize
  • US
18 6.7
to corporatize
  • Formal
1 7.5
to reform
228 3.7

Surface Forms

corporatize infinitive
corporatized past
corporatized past participle
corporatizing present participle
corporatizes third person singular

Morphology

corporatize = corporate (transparent) = corporate + ize

Formed by productive suffixation with '-ize' meaning 'make or become', so 'to make corporate' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word corporatize comes from a Latin word for 'body' and the ending -ize, which means 'make' or 'become'. So to corporatize is to 'make into a corporate body', which explains why it means changing an organization to work like a company focused on efficiency and profit.