Meaning of company | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose
2. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
   countable, uncountable
3. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
   countable, uncountable
4. To accompany or associate with.
5. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose
6. A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
   countable, uncountable
7. enterprise, undertaking
8. To keep company with someone; associate.
9. A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion
10. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
    countable, uncountable
11. task
12. To be with or go with (another):accompany, attend, companion, escort.
13. A unit of firefighters and their equipment
14. The entire crew of a ship.
    countable, uncountable
15. to go, stay etc with (someone). I'll come too, and keep you company. geselskap hou يُرافِق، يُعاشِر правя компания fazer companhia dělat společnost jemandem Gesellschaft leisten gøre én selskab κάνω παρέα σε κπ. hacerle compañía a alguien (kellelegi) kaaslaseks olema همراهی کردن pitää seuraa tenir compagnie à qqn לְאָרֵח חֵברָה साथ रहना društvo elkísér vkit menemani halda félagsskap tenere compagnia a qualcuno 付き合う 동행하다 sudaryti (kam) kompaniją kavēt kādam laiku temankan gezelschap houden hol...
    etc
16. The entire crew of a ship
17. An intelligence service.
    countable, informal, uncountable
18. to leave or separate. They parted company (with each other) at the bus stop. skei يَتْرُك، يَقْتَرِق разделям се с separar-se rozejít se s sich trennen skilles; gå fra hinanden χωρίζω από την παρέα, αποχωρίζομαιsepararse laiali minema جدا شدن؛ ترک کردن erkaantua quitter לְהִפָּרֵד अलग हो जाना rastati se, razići elválik vkitől berpisah skiljast separarsi da* (～と) 別れる 헤어지다 išsiskirti pārtraukt sakarus; šķirties berpisah afscheid nemenskille lag, gå fra hverandre rozstawać się پریښوول separar-se...
19. A small group of birds or animals.
    countable, uncountable
20. compañía, establecimiento, empresa.
21. An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
    countable, uncountable
22. A group of persons: a company of scientists.
23. Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
    countable, uncountable
24. One's companions or associates: moved in fast company; is known by the company she keeps.
25. Social visitors or companions.
    uncountable
26. A business enterprise; a firm.
27. adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
    countable, uncountable
28. A troupe of dramatic or musical performers: a repertory company.
29. Companionship.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“a company of actors”

“the boys in Company C”

“It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.”

“It took six companies to put out the fire.”

“As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.”

“a financial services company”

““[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes; love of the people, and that sort of guff.””

“In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.”

“According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.”

“The company added it has not “received any reports of adverse events,” but it’s moving forward with the recall out of “an abundance of caution.””

“Keep the house clean; I have company coming.”

“Come, O thou Traveller unknown, / Whom still I hold, but cannot see! / My company before is gone, / And I am left alone with Thee; / With Thee all night I mean to stay, / And wrestle till the break of day.”

“At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]”

“The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.””

“looks like we've got company”

“I treasure your company.”

“He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.”

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