incorporate

Definition

To formally transform your side hustle into a real business entity, complete with bylaws and the legal right to be sued. In the corporate world, it also means to seamlessly blend something in, like incorporating feedback you'll promptly ignore. The ultimate act of making it official, whether you're mixing ingredients or mixing business structures.

Example Usage

After three years of freelancing, Sarah decided to incorporate her consulting practice, immediately feeling 47% more legitimate.

Source: Wiktionary via Free Dictionary API

Related Terms

Beginner

analysis paralysis

The state of overthinking a problem to the point where no decision gets made, usually involving seventeen spreadsheets and six committee meetings. Death by PowerPoint's neurotic cousin.

💼 Corporate / Business

Beginner

feasible

The diplomatic way of saying something could theoretically be done without committing to whether it should be done or if anyone actually wants to do it. This adjective lives in the sweet spot between "impossible" and "confirmed," giving planners wiggle room to sound positive without making promises. When consultants say something is feasible, they mean it's technically possible given unlimited time, budget, and patience.

💼 Corporate / Business

Advanced

Bleeding Edge

Technology so new that adopting it will make your budget hemorrhage money while your IT department hemorrhages sanity. It's called bleeding edge because someone is always getting hurt.

💼 Corporate / Business

Beginner

Touch Base

To have a brief, usually unnecessary conversation that could have been an email, which itself could have been nothing. Touching base is the corporate world's way of proving you still exist to your colleagues.

💼 Corporate / Business

Intermediate

cascade communication

A top-down information flow where messages trickle from executives through management layers to front-line employees, losing clarity and gaining confusion at each level like a game of corporate telephone.

💼 Corporate / Business

Advanced

BV

Short for Besloten Vennootschap, the Dutch version of a private limited liability company that's basically the Netherlands' answer to Germany's GmbH. You'll see "BV" tagged onto company names throughout the Low Countries, signaling that shareholders' personal assets are protected from corporate debts—because the Dutch love their legal structures almost as much as their bicycles.

💼 Corporate / Business

Translate This Term

See “incorporate” in Corporate Speak, Gen-Z Slang, Pirate Speak, and more.

Try the Translator

Share This Term

Post on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn

Discover a Term

Beginner

cheerleading

We have all heard the opinion that cheerleading is not a sport. The fact that we don't tackle our opponents to the groun...