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in•cor•po•rate

Pronunciation: (
—v.in-kôr'pu-rāt";
—adj.in-kôr'pur-it, -prit), [key]
—v., -rat•ed, -rat•ing,
—adj.

—v.t.
1. to form into a legal corporation.
2. to put or introduce into a body or mass as an integral part or parts: to incorporate revisions into a text.
3. to take in or include as a part or parts, as the body or a mass does: His book incorporates his earlier essay.
4. to form or combine into one body or uniform substance, as ingredients.
5. to embody: His book incorporates all his thinking on the subject.
6. to form into a society or organization.

—v.i.
1. to form a legal corporation.
2. to unite or combine so as to form one body.

—adj.
1. legally incorporated, as a company.
2. combined into one body, mass, or substance.
3. Archaic.embodied.