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incorporative

incorporative

1 8.8
Growing by taking over nearby areas and making them part of it
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈkɔːrpərətɪv/
  • Formal
: incorporativo
  • The organization took an incorporative strategy, merging its efforts with local businesses to strengthen the economy.

We always have this sort of incorporative assimilative consciousness, self consciousness, reason, rational self consciousness.

Examples

  • Human actions in the environment are better seen as incorporative rather than inscriptive, in the sense that they are built or enfolded into the forms of the landscape and its living inhabitants by way of their own processes of growth" (2000, 87).

    Academic text (2004)
  • The first two sections of this paper will demonstrate that, far from acting only as social and spatial dividers (both of which they were in a literal sense), choir screens fulfilled a wide variety of incorporative functions.

    Academic text (2000)
  • "For Spacious Skies" is so valuable because beyond developing an aesthetic appreciation, it is a magnificent vehicle for incorporative learning.

    Academic text (1990)
  • We are not only members of the new fellowship, a cooperative view, but we are also present in each member of the new community, an incorporative concept.

    Academic text (2011)
  • We always have this sort of incorporative assimilative consciousness, self consciousness, reason, rational self consciousness.

  • Foe, I argue, exposes the incorporative process by linking the colonial project to a historically contingent Christianity.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Mourning in this discourse is not the identificatory act of melancholic adoration but rather an exorcism of the other, the lost object, beyond the incorporative realm of available material.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Rudy's connection to the Holocaust and slavery clearly involves incorporative identification or crude empathy, as he is far less interested in entering into an ethical relationship with historical others than in appropriating their experience to bolster his own claim to victimhood.

    Academic text (2008)
  • "The phrase describes a conception of time as "inclusive and incorporative: the Others, pagans, and infidels (rather than savages and primitives) were viewed as candidates for salvation" (26).

    Academic text (1996)
  • The city's incorporative approach allowed it to grow by integrating neighboring communities into its resources and services.

Synonyms

annexational
vsincorporative
9.9

Relating to taking control of land and making it part of another country

describes wider expansion by absorbing nearby areas and integrating them

Antonyms

Causing things to break into smaller parts

How Incorporative

annexation
17 7.5
assimilative
1 7.9
incorporative
  • Formal
1 8.8

Surface Forms

incorporative positive

Morphology

incorporative = incorporate (transparent) = incorporate + ive

The adjective is directly formed from the verb 'incorporate' with the adjectival suffix '-ive', so the meaning is predictable from the base.

Etymology

Incorporative comes from in- 'in' and corpor- 'body', the same root you see in corporation. So something incorporative 'brings into the body', which is why the word means expanding by taking in and joining nearby areas or groups.