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incorporate

incorporate in‧cor‧po‧rate [ɪnˈkɔːpəreɪt ǁ -ɔːr-] verb [transitive]

1. COMMERCE LAW if a company is incorporated, it is listed officially as a company by meeting certain legal requirement S which apply in a particular country or a particular state. Companies which are incorporated become corporation S:

• Zapata Trading was founded in 1986 and incorporated in 1989.

• The law gave corporations that are incorporated in Pennsylvania 90 days to opt out of certain provisions.

2. to include or add something to a group, system, plan etc:

• Volvo hopes to incorporate Japanese concepts of worker participation.

incorporate something in/into something

• Apple Computer agreed to incorporate Adobe's printer software in the basic program for all Macintosh PCs.

— incorporation noun [countable, uncountable] :

• During the first quarter, new business incorporations increased 8.5%.

• the incorporation of previous price increases into current wage bargaining

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incorporate UK US /ɪnˈkɔːp^əreɪt/ verb [ T]

► [usually passive] LAW to make a company or organization into a legal corporation (= a particular type of company): incorporate an association/a business/a company »The association was incorporated in 1970.
»Our company was incorporated in Delaware after World War I.

► to include something within something else: incorporate a component/an element/a feature »Mobile phones incorporate features of desktop computers, personal digital assistants, and landlines.
incorporate a concept/an idea/a theme »Working with colleagues from other countries gives us the opportunity to incorporate new ideas and methods.
incorporate sth into sth »We've incorporated the hydraulic central heating into the floor tiles.
incorporate sth with sth »Thirty years ago, the idea that a phone could be incorporated with a computer and be held in one hand was the stuff of comic books.

Financial and business terms. 2012.