intercorporate

1 7.7

Relating to deals between two or more companies

adjective
/ˌɪntərˈkɔːrpəˌreɪt/

: interempresarial

The firm specializes in intercorporate transactions, facilitating partnerships between various businesses.

Examples

Leaders from several nations discussed intercorporate collaboration to enhance global trade.
In some instances, steps should be taken to reorganize existing intercorporate holdings.

Academic text (1994)
This will at least limit the problem to situations where Americans are the ultimate owners and not merely conduits in a chain of intercorporate holdings.

Academic text (1994)
The intercorporate agreement allowed both companies to share resources and reduce costs.

Synonyms

intercompany

vsintercorporate

1 5.0

Happening between two or more companies

refers specifically to ties among larger legal business entities

interorganizational

vsintercorporate

1 6.7

Involving two or more organizations working together

is narrower, applying to relations among larger legal business entities

interfirm

vsintercorporate

1 6.6

Between companies when they work together or compete

focuses on connections among larger legal business entities

Surface Forms

intercorporate positive

Morphology

intercorporate = corporate (transparent) = inter + corporate + inter

The adjective is formed by the productive prefix 'inter-' meaning 'between' added to the adjective 'corporate', yielding 'between or among corporations'.

Etymology

Intercorporate joins the prefix inter- 'between' with corporate, which you can think of like corporation, a company seen as a 'body'. So it means something that happens 'between companies'.