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

to corporatize

8.3
To change how a society or institution is run so businesses and unions share power with the state
  • verb
  • /ˈkɔːr.pə.rə.taɪz/
  • Formal
translation icon : corporativizar
  • My home and native land, Canada, is way ahead of the USA as regards corporatizing government.

Examples

  • Some of the mentality you're seeing at CRU and EAU comes out of the increasing trend to "corporatize" public institutions.

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  • Our school systems are being privatized or corporatized, as they issue standardized tests so students can parrot back the groupthink because people who are able to think are dangerous to the corporate state.

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  • I fear for our country when public education is finally privatized and corporatized.

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  • Many governments are choosing to corporatize their public services to increase efficiency and accountability.

  • The trend to corporatize healthcare systems is controversial, sparking debates about public access and profit.

  • In recent years, several universities have started to corporatize their operations by aligning more closely with business interests.

Synonyms

to co-opt
vsto corporatize
7.5

Bring critics into your group to reduce their opposition

is formal restructuring that integrates groups into governance rather than merely neutralizing dissent

How Corporatized

to integrate
75 4.1
to corporatize
  • Formal
8.3
to include
∞ 1.0
to consult
68 4.4

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

corporatize = corporate (semi-transparent) = corporate + ize

Although formed from 'corporate' + '-ize', the political/ideological meaning of implementing corporatist structures is specialized and not fully predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word corporatize comes from a Latin word for 'body' and the ending -ize, which means 'make' or 'become', the same root you see in corporation. So to corporatize can also mean making parts of society into formal 'bodies' or groups that take part in government, which is why it describes involving major groups in decision-making.