corporati
n.pl.— «Besides our inability to parse complex data sets, there are plenty of other reasons why we dropped this story—the business press corps’ formerly cozy relationship with the corporati chief among them. Enron clearly works better as an analogy for the current press paradigm than as a straightforward example.» —“The Press’ New Paradigm” by Matt Thompson Snarkmarket June 8, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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