corporatize

verb

cor·​po·​rat·​ize ˈkȯr-p(ə-)rə-ˌtīz 

corporatized; corporatizing

transitive verb

: to subject to corporate ownership or control

afraid that medicine was becoming corporatized

corporatization

ˌkȯr-p(ə-)rə-tə-ˈzā-shən 

noun

Examples of corporatize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This explains how and why those messages usually sound so empty, sanitized, and corporatized. — Shaun Harper, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023

In the 1980s and 1990s, the right managed to slash taxes, decimate unions, liquidate pensions, corporatize health care, capture regulatory agencies, and more. — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 5 May 2022

What my hope has always been is that as the use of cannabis spreads and the stigma dials down, cannabis is going to cannaba-lize the corporations as much or more than the corporations are going to corporatize cannabis. — Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2021

Regardless of the personal outcome of that trial, the longer-term perceptions of chaebols may hinge on Lee’s promise to corporatize Samsung. — Sohee Kim, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020

The risk is that cheering on high-tech fixes (instead of embracing a big plan like the one in the New York report) will give a weak, cash-poor government cover to corporatize the grid instead of fixing it. — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2018

But some small farmers and manufacturers are also starting to look at Amazon's record in other fields - and worry that the retail giant will use its market power to further centralize and corporatize theirs. — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017

Word History

Etymology

corporate + -ize

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for corporatize

• actualize
• antagonize
• apologise
• apologize
• capitalize
• categorize
• characterize
• commercialize
• conceptualize
• contrariwise
• criminalize
• decentralize