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incorporated

/ɪnˈkɔrpəreɪɾɪd/
/ɪnˈkɔpəreɪtɪd/
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Incorporated can be easily incorporated into your vocabulary. If something is introduced into a larger whole, like when you add a set of sit-ups to your work-out routine, you can say it is incorporated.

You may recognize part of the Latin root corpus, meaning "body," in this English word. Essentially, incorporated means "formed or added into a body." This word is often used when new elements have been added to something that already existed, like when new clothes are incorporated into a person's old wardrobe. On a slightly different track, incorporated can also be used when a corporation, or company, is formed.

Definitions of incorporated
  1. adjective
    formed or united into a whole
    united
    characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity
  2. adjective
    introduced into as a part of the whole
    “the ideas incorporated in his revised manuscript”
    synonyms:
    integrated
    formed into a whole or introduced into another entity
  3. adjective
    organized and maintained as a legal corporation
    “an incorporated town”
    synonyms: corporate
    organized
    formed into a structured or coherent whole
Pronunciation
US
/ɪnˈkɔrpəreɪɾɪd/
UK
/ɪnˈkɔpəreɪtɪd/
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