A member of a corporation, board, or organized body; someone who participates in corporate governance.
From 'corporate' (from Latin 'corporatus' meaning 'united in a body') plus the agent suffix '-or.' First appeared in English in the 1600s to describe members of chartered companies.
In old England, a corporator of a trading company had real power—they could decide what goods to ship to distant colonies and potentially get rich, making them among the earliest versions of modern business executives.
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