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   incorporate

   verb

   • 1. take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include: "he has incorporated in his proposals a number of measures" Similar absorbincludesubsumeassimilateintegratetake inswallow upengulfconsolidateembodyincludecomprisecontainembracebuild inencompassOpposite separate
   • ▪ combine (ingredients) into one substance: "add the cheeses and butter and process briefly to incorporate them" Similar blendmixminglecombineput togethermergefuseuniteunifyjoinbring togetheramalgamateintegratefold instirwhiskmeldmarrymeshcompoundalloycoalescehomogenizeemulsifyintermingleintermixinformal:blungerare:comminglecommix
   • 2. constitute (a company, city, or other organization) as a legal corporation: "limited liability companies could only be incorporated under the 1930 Act"

   adjective

   • 1. another term for incorporated
   • 2. having a bodily form; embodied: literary "through an incorporate resilience, slighted confidence restores itself"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from late Latin incorporat- ‘embodied’, from the verb incorporare, from in- ‘into’ + Latin corporare ‘form into a body’ (from corpus, corpor- ‘body’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. incorporator noun

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