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  "id": "corporate.business",
  "term": "corporate",
  "sense": "business",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "of a company",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "company.economic",
      "legal.law"
    ],
    "interaction": "the company and legal aspects together create corporate",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared identity",
      "formal governance",
      "collective brand"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Apple Inc. reported $383.29 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2023, operating under U.S. corporate law.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The East India Company was granted a royal charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600 to trade in Asia.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Microsoft Corporation legally registered its incorporation in Washington State on June 25, 1981.",
      "domain": "law"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "commercial.economic",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "corporate is a kind of commercial adjective"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "corporate"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-corporate.business"
}