Meaning & use
corporate campus
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Meaning
nouncountablebusiness
A large business site with several office buildings, grounds and shared facilities, designed somewhat like a college campus.
Grammar: Countable: the company built a new corporate campus.
Patterns
- a corporate campus in somewhere
- build a corporate campus
The software firm opened a corporate campus with gardens and three cafeterias.
Employees ride a shuttle between buildings on the corporate campus.
The city hopes the new corporate campus will bring thousands of jobs.
Word forms
| plural | corporate campuses |
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Common combinations
- sprawling corporate campus
- The company moved to a sprawling corporate campus outside the city.
- build a corporate campus
- They plan to build a corporate campus by the river.
- on the corporate campus
- There is a gym on the corporate campus.
- tour the corporate campus
- Visitors can tour the corporate campus on Fridays.
- corporate campus design
- Corporate campus design now focuses on open outdoor areas.
Synonyms and how they differ
- office park
- An office park is usually a cluster of separate businesses sharing a site, whereas a corporate campus belongs to one company.
- headquarters
- Headquarters names the main base of a company, which may be a single building, while a corporate campus is always a multi-building complex.
- business park
- A business park can include factories and many tenants, so it is less tied to one firm and less polished than a corporate campus.
Word family
- campus noun
- the grounds and buildings of a university or similar site
- corporate adjective
- relating to a large company
- corporation noun
- a large company legally treated as one body
- corporately adverb
- in the manner of a company
Commonly confused: corporate campus or university campus?
corporate campus vs university campus
A university campus belongs to a school and has students; a corporate campus belongs to a company and has employees.
Practice
Which description best fits a corporate campus?
Choose one answer.
A corporate campus is a company's multi-building site with shared facilities. A university dormitory sounds campus-like but belongs to a school, so it is the tempting wrong answer.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “corporate campus”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.