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to incorporate

to incorporate

47 5.1
Create a company that is legally separate from its owners
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈkɔːrpəreɪt/
  • Formal
translation icon : constituir (una sociedad)
  • Some state legislatures have specifically incorporated the warranty of habitability into their landlord-tenant laws.
  • to incorporate a business
  • formally incorporated
  • an incorporated village

The company is Allegro Music Center Incorporated in Florida.

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Examples

  • To date, since that dispute settlement provision was incorporated in the Berne Convention, it has never been used.

    Academic text (1999)
  • I incorporated and Molly Bloom Event Planning was born.

  • We'll incorporate and go into business.

  • One of his people did the legal work when they incorporated this town.

  • Howard, there are serious tax consequences to incorporating in California.

  • The day-care center recently became incorporated, and now has a board of directors and an accountant.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Are you incorporated?

  • In February of 1968, the city of Carson was incorporated and since then it has grown to be one of the fastest-growing cities in the Southern California area, with a population of over 82,000 and an assessed valuation of nearly 350 million dollars and no property taxes.

  • After discussing our plans, we decided to incorporate the startup to protect our personal assets.

  • In order to operate legally, they needed to incorporate their business as a separate entity.

Antonyms

to dissolve
  • Formal
60 4.1

To officially end an organization, agreement, or relationship

43 4.3

To stop being a group, for example a band or committee

How Integrated

to reincorporate
  • Specialized
1 7.2
to incorporate
  • Formal
47 5.1
to merge
192 3.2

Surface Forms

incorporate infinitive
incorporated past participle
incorporating present participle
incorporates third person singular

Morphology

incorporate = in + corpor + ate

Although the word historically contains Latinate parts related to 'body' and 'corporation', a B1 learner is unlikely to derive the legal sense productively from modern English morphology.

Etymology

The word incorporate comes from Latin in- 'in' and corpor- from corpus 'body'. To incorporate a business is to give it its own 'body' or legal life, separate from the owners, which is why such a firm is called a corporation.