MEANING
1. To make something a constituent part of a larger whole.
2. To establish an organization as a legally recognized corporation.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- incorporate feedback
- incorporate a provision
On the page
The revised proposal incorporates the reviewers' suggestions.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- incorporate
- Past tense
- incorporated
- Past participle
- incorporated
- Present participle
- incorporating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- incorporate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are incorporating
- Present perfect
- have/has incorporated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been incorporating
- Past
- incorporated
- Past continuous
- was/were incorporating
- Past perfect
- had incorporated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been incorporating
- Future
- will incorporate
- Future continuous
- will be incorporating
- Future perfect
- will have incorporated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been incorporating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: incorporate; incorporates; incorporated; incorporated; incorporating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: incorporates.
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