incorporated
- adjective
- /ɪnˈkɔːrpəreɪtɪd/
- Formal
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incorporado
- After the team completed all the paperwork, their startup was officially incorporated as a legal entity.
Acquisition Company and the charges relate to its proposed merger with Momentous Incorporated.
- Acquisition Company and the charges relate to its proposed merger with Momentous Incorporated.
- What rich people do, if you're incorporated, is you get your whole check and the government goes, yo, April, you've got to cough it up.
Examples
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Philip Bullock, Apple's tax expert, explained to the Senate committee that Apple Operations International is incorporated in Ireland.
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So he phoned up Boyer and they set up a company the same week that Apple was incorporated in the same part of Silicon Valley.
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Apple Operations International is incorporated in Ireland, giving it official legal status.
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The new software company was incorporated last month, allowing it to begin operations.
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Morphology
incorporated = incorporate (transparent) = incorporate + ed
Formed by adding the past-participial/adjectival suffix '-ed' to the verb 'incorporate'; the adjectival meaning follows directly from the verb (legal sense).
Etymology
Incorporated comes from the Latin parts in- 'in' and corpus 'body', the same root as corporation. So when a company becomes incorporated, it is made into one official 'body' or organization.