corporatize
verb
cor·po·rat·ize
ˈkȯr-p(ə-)rə-ˌtīz 
corporatized; corporatizing
: to subject to corporate ownership or control
afraid that medicine was becoming corporatized
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This explains how and why those messages usually sound so empty, sanitized, and corporatized.
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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
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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
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“Corporatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporatize. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
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