Collocations with “Corporate”

Collocations with “Corporate”

Hi English learners. Welcome to a new lesson. How often do you hear the word “corporate” used in different word combinations? Well, I thought it might be useful to go through some commonly used collocations with “corporate” for your better understanding of English.

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A corporation is a large company or a group of companies acting as a single entity. The adjective is corporate; we use it to talk about big companies. You will usually find it in these collocations:

1. Corporate assets
2. Corporate culture
3. Corporate efforts
4. Corporate executive/client
5. Corporate finance
6. Corporate headquarters
7. Corporate identity
8. Corporate image
9. Corporate ladder

Corporate assets

Meaning: refers to tangible and intangible property that belongs to a company. 

• The two executives were criticised for wasting corporate assets. 

Corporate culture

Meaning: has to do with the way employees in a company think and act. 

• Corporate culture is not something you can easily change, but one way to do so could be to hold live events.

Corporate efforts

Meaning: employees of the same company work as a team in order to achieve a common goal.

• Our team made a corporate effort to build trust in a foreign market.

Corporate executive/client

Meaning: a corporate executive is a corporation’s executive officer or any other person responsible for the business of a company, while a corporate client is a person or a company that is a customer of a corporation.

• Corporate executives must be loyal to their companies.
• The company organises all kinds of events for corporate clients.

Corporate finance

Meaning: an area of finance dealing with corporate funding, budgeting, etc.

• Corporate finance is certainly a rewarding career option.

Corporate headquarters

Meaning: the place where the company’s main offices are located.

• Martin used to work in our office in Germany and is currently leading the human resources department at the corporate headquarters.

Corporate identity

Meaning: the way the company presents itself to the world.

• Our company is working on globalising its corporate identity.

Corporate image

Meaning: corporate image is similar to corporate identity, but the former refers to the perception the company creates in the public eye.

• Many companies use ad campaigns to improve their corporate image.

Corporate ladder

Meaning: refers to a company’s hierarchy; you will often hear that employees are climbing the corporate ladder as their careers advance.

• The employees in our company are driven to climb corporate ladders.

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