verb

incorporate

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verb

To include something as a part of a larger whole.

"The new design incorporates feedback from hundreds of users."

"She incorporated a few jokes into her speech to lighten the mood."

To form a business into a legally recognised company.

"The founders decided to incorporate the business in Delaware."

How to Use Incorporate

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishTo bring something in as part of a whole, or to legally set up a company as its own entity.

Common pairings

incorporate feedback incorporate a company newly incorporated

more incorporate comparative, incorporated past tense, incorporates singular, most incorporate superlative

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The new design _____ feedback from hundreds of users.

From Late Latin incorporātus, from in- ("in") plus corpus ("body") — literally "to form into a body."

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corporate corporeal corporal joint substantial bodily integrate