English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
COOPERATE or CORPORATE?
You have to ~corporate~ with her to get it done (nonstandard).
You have to *cooperate* with her to get it done (standard).
If you cooperate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. The noun form is cooperation:
We need ~corporation~ to achieve this (nonstandard).
We need *cooperation* to achieve this (standard).
We invited some ~cooperate~ bodies (nonstandard).
We invited some *corporate* bodies (standard).
Corporate primarily means relating to a business, especially a large company or a corporation as a whole:
No one knew he headed that ~cooperation~ for years (nonstandard).
No one knew he headed that *corporation* for years (standard).
GAB
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