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company

[kuhm-puh-nee]

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noun

a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.

a guest or guests: We're having company for dinner.

an assemblage of persons for social purposes.

companionship; fellowship; association: I always enjoy her company.

one's usual companions: I don't like the company he keeps.

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society collectively.

a number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, especially for business: a publishing company; a dance company.

(initial capital letter

) the members of a firm not specifically named in the firm's title: George Higgins and Company.

Military.

the smallest body of troops, consisting of a headquarters and two or three platoons.

any relatively small group of soldiers.

Army. a basic unit with both tactical and administrative functions.

10.

a unit of firefighters, including their special apparatus: a hook-and-ladder company.

11.

Also called ship's company. a ship's crew, including the officers.

12.

a medieval trade guild.

13.

the Company, Informal. a nation's major intelligence-gathering and espionage organization, as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

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verb (used without object)

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Archaic. to associate.

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verb (used with object)

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Archaic. to accompany.

Idioms

16.

keep company,

to associate with; be a friend of.

Informal. to go together, as in courtship: My sister has been keeping company with a young lawyer.

17.

part company,

to cease association or friendship with: We parted company 20 years ago after the argument.

to take a different or opposite view; differ: He parted company with his father on politics.

to separate: We parted company at the airport.

Origin:
1200–50; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French compaignie companionship, equivalent to compain (< Late Latin compāniō; see companion¹) + -ie -y³

Related forms

com·pa·ny·less, adjective

in·ter·com·pa·ny, adjective

Synonyms
1. group, assemblage, body. Company, band, party, troop refer to a group of people formally or informally associated. Company is the general word and means any group of people: a company of motorists. Band, used especially of a band of musicians, suggests a relatively small group pursuing the same purpose or sharing a common fate: a concert by a band; a band of survivors. Party, except when used of a political group, usually implies an indefinite and temporary assemblage, as for some common pursuit: a spelunking party. Troop, used specifically of a body of cavalry, usually implies a number of individuals organized as a unit: a troop of cavalry. 3. gathering, crowd. 6. firm, house, corporation.

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Example Sentences

The company has announced plays for next year and an extended ticket discount program.

The methodology varies from company to company, but the process generally begins with a written proposal.

Rarely has a company managed to destroy so much shareholder value in such a short space of time.

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The company has announced plays for next year and an extended ticket discount program.

The methodology varies from company to company, but the process generally begins with a written proposal.

Rarely has a company managed to destroy so much shareholder value in such a short space of time.

The company that funded the first successful cloning of a domestic cat two years ago has gone commercial.

Often project developers have to work with the utility company to run power lines out to the site.

On the outside, it said it was made by a particular tobacco company.

If you want something even bigger or a different shape, the company will also do custom orders.

Everything you know about starting a company is wrong.

The company will cut the number of operating groups to two from three, and consolidate plants and distribution centers.

Under that deal, the company agreed not to use threats or discounts to hinder computer makers from purchasing its rivals' chips.

But once a company has evolved into a huge company, long-term investments really should be the norm.

It was a groundbreaking decision, even for a company with a long history of inventions and innovations.

Utilities refusing would be fined up to an amount double that of the economic loss of the renewable energy company.

Even though the company decided to print a date on the package, a judge dismissed the date as not having any legal worth.

And now that it has agaves and desert perennials for company the agave looks more at home.

Patco is not the first company to sue its bank over fraudulent money transfers.

As your company grows you can hire more people and pay them more money, generating more wealth.

Their names stand out, even in the company of history's elite, for each of them left their own indelible imprint upon our world.

Zenk said his company is supported by major oil companies.

Meanwhile, the company continues to work on the creation of a dome to cap off the leaks.

So they're forced to buy all new seed from the company.

Usually when a company raises prices they do so apologetically, anticipating customer anger.

The big trees were all gone, cut by a timber company.

Sometimes the scientist will work for the company, sometimes they'll collaborate with the company.

The company website even includes a tutorial on composting at home, whether you live in the country or in a tiny apartment.

The main attraction is still renting movies by mail, but now the company is producing its own indie flicks.

Do your homework the next time you're booking a trip with an adventure travel company or guide.

Company officials did not return phone calls or e-mails seeking comment for this article.

The railroad company accepted the rights and these three gentlemen gave one one hundred acres for the town and depot.

Apple isn't a company that adds features which aren't universally supported.

Another option is credit cards that are co-branded with a gas company.

But the bonds are often so low that it can be more economical for a company to forfeit its bond rather than plug its wells.

They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week.

Efforts to integrate storage into electric grids continue to struggle as a federally backed flywheel company goes bankrupt.

One global education-services company recently jumped into the business of.

Quantum computing company banks on a long-shot form of quantum computing.

The particulars of the case-whether one company has the right to patent an adjustable car pedal-leave room for excitement.

Soliday works from home as a sales manager for a food products company.

If your insurance company isn't working out for you anymore, then definitely consider switching.

The value of the check that the company sent you when it went private is the sales value.

The government's pension insurer is taking equity in a troubled company.

Floragem is a brand-marketing company creating consumer horticultural products.

Fortunes made in trading start-up company stocks, and lost in the next market crash.

Pasta cooked paella-style makes a great entrée for weeknight company.

Boeing has received plenty of unwanted press lately, so the company must be happy it has something good to talk about.

When the world's second-biggest mining company said last year that it would open three state-of-the-art research centers in.

Cisco's chairman and chief executive is stretching his company in all directions.

What's more, the company has found that such products have properties that make them appealing to consumers.

The company is also exploring options for using the process's waste silica-more commonly known as sand-in the cement industry.

Tourism is now the islands' main industry, along with offshore company registration.

During the holidays, with so many gatherings waiting to happen, weeknight meals sometimes need to be worthy of company.

Maybe the handset division will prosper as a standalone company.

The response of business to the euro crisis, a company encourages good health and armed guards on boats repel pirates.

In each case, you can either do the digitizing yourself, or you can send your recordings away to a company that does it for you.

What seems at first to be a promising new environmentally friendly car company turns out to be more of a lemon-producer.

Call your waste management company and request a set of recycling bins as well as materials guidelines and your pickup schedule.

Elanco is a global research-based company that develops and delivers product and services to enhance animal health and production.

Even the company isn't sure where he came up with the name.

The company shows its best moves in this dazzling evening performance.

Somehow, creating a company seemed uncharacteristically pragmatic.

Even when you think you are alone, you have company.

But a court ruled yesterday that one company does not have the rights to some of.

Clonaid, a private cloning company founded by a religious sect, has recently claimed to have produced not one but.

They drove a company to bankruptcy on junk science, only to admit a decade or so later that they were wrong.

Company policies are not as unbudgeable as you think.

Visitors usually view the animals from their cars, but they can also sign up for walks in the company of armed rangers.

Have students imagine that they have been hired by a whale-watching tour company to develop new informational materials.

Call a wood-recycling facility or your local waste-management company and ask how to recycle clean wood scraps.

The new plane, the company boasts, will help ease the increasingly congested airspace.

They're kept company by clowns, acrobats, and other circus greats.

The company offers narrated all-day tours that hit the highlights inside the park, including a stop at a rare black sand beach.

Ten years later it sold more of them than any other company in the world.

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World English Dictionary

company (ˈkʌmpənɪ)

—n , pl -nies
1.	a number of people gathered together; assembly
2.	the fact of being with someone; companionship: I enjoy her company
3.	a social visitor or visitors; guest or guests
4.	a business enterprise
5.	Co, Abbreviation: co the members of an enterprise not specifically mentioned in the enterprise's title
6.	a group of actors, usually including business and technical personnel
7.	a unit of around 100 troops, usually comprising two or more platoons
8.	the officers and crew of a ship
9.	a unit of Girl Guides
10.	English history a medieval guild
11.	keep company, bear company
	a. to accompany (someone)
	b. (esp of lovers) to associate with each other; spend time together
12.	part company
	a. to end a friendship or association, esp as a result of a quarrel; separate
	b. (foll by with) to leave; go away (from); be separated (from)

—vb , -nies, -nies, -nying, -nied
13.	archaic to keep company or associate (with someone)

[C13: from Old French compaignie, from compain companion, fellow, from Late Latin compāniō; see companion¹]

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Word Origin & History

company

1150, from O.Fr. compaignie "body of soldiers," from L.L. companio (see companion). Meaning "subdivision of an infantry regiment" is from 1590. Sense of "business association" first recorded 1553, having earlier been used in reference to trade guilds (c.1300). Abbreviation co. dates from 1759.

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Idioms & Phrases

company

In addition to the idioms beginning with company, also see keep someone company; misery loves company; part company; two's company.

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