Meaning of incorporate in English

incorporate

verb

/ɪnˈkɔː.pər.eɪt/ us

/ɪnˈkɔːr.pɚ.eɪt/

incorporate verb (INCLUDE)

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to include something as part of something larger:

be incorporated into/in Suggestions from the survey have been incorporated into/in the final design.

This aircraft incorporates several new safety features.

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He has become more venturesome this season with dress designs that incorporate a variety of ethnic influences.
The film incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction.
The program incorporates a powerful graphics tool.
The act incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into English law.
His later work incorporates elements of popular culture.

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incorporate verb (COMPANY)

[ I or T usually passive ] business, law specialized

to legally make a company into a corporation or part of a corporation (= a large company or group of companies that is controlled together as a single organization), or (of a company) to become a corporation:

The company was incorporated in 2008 and is privately owned.

It was an offshore company incorporated in Nicosia, Cyprus.

He set up a jewellery design business and incorporated it five years later.

When a company incorporates, the articles of incorporation state how many shares are authorized and can be issued

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Some countries have legal provisions allowing key officials from offshore companies incorporated in these countries to remain anonymous.
He incorporated his company in the Turks and Caicos Islands to avoid many US laws and taxes.
The Act extends to companies registered or incorporated in Northern Ireland.
If you own your business and it is not incorporated, your company may contribute additional self-employment income.

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incorporate

verb

/ɪnˈkɔr·pəˌreɪt/

incorporate verb (INCLUDE)

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[ T ]

to include something within something else:

This aircraft incorporates several new safety features.

incorporate verb (MAKE A COMPANY)

[ I/T ]

to make a business into a corporation (= business protected by specific laws)

incorporated

adjective [ only after n, not gradable ] us

/ɪnˈkɔr·pəˌreɪ·t̬ɪd/ (abbreviation Inc.)

McLaughlin Glass, Incorporated

incorporation

noun [ U ] us/ɪnˌkɔr·pəˈreɪ·ʃən/

the incorporation of black soldiers into Union ranks

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incorporate

verb [ T ]

/ɪnˈkɔːpəreɪt/ us

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[ 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.

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Examples of incorporate

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On the other hand, they sought to incorporate the philosophical definition of elements as the building blocks of the universe.

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Reproductive responses incorporate the phonetic characteristics of the preceding child utterance into maternal responses.

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The asset portfolio can incorporate bad outcomes that are relatively independent of economic wellbeing, such as psychological distress.

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She argues, then, that learners incorporate phonological and distributional information to arrive at adult syntactic representations.

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Another interesting aspect of the design is that the spreadsheet incorporates symbolic reduction and normalisation of symbolic expressions (including equations).

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However, the extension of this argument for also incorporating estimation of error functionals is straightforward.

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For example, can the ethic of care be easily incorporated into legislation, or might it ultimately be too discretionary to capture within legal rules?

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Fortunately, unlike moment estimators, it is relatively easy to incorporate a model of genotyping errors into the triadic likelihood estimator of relatedness.

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For this reason, we incorporate the virtual actuator in the system.

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The urban district authority was, however, by no means the only body that incorporated a local state presence.

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Finally, instead of using phoneme-sized units, why not have higher-order recognition units like syllables that already incorporate the transitional phoneme information?

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The individual responses in relation to each theme (core category plus dimensions) were incorporated under the relevant headings.

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Self-reported health is a nuanced multi-faceted indicator of underlying health status that incorporates multiple dimensions of health, including both physical and mental health.

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That is, instead of directing the edges we incorporate the direction into the score functions.

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The trial incorporated three varieties differing in their ease of retting, so that variety and time of spraying interactions could be investigated.

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Translations of incorporate

in Chinese (Traditional)

包含, 將…包括在內…

Meaning of incorporate in English

incorporate verb (INCLUDE)

incorporate verb (COMPANY)

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incorporate | American Dictionary

incorporate verb (INCLUDE)

incorporate verb (MAKE A COMPANY)

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incorporation

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