Company

/ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/ · noun

Meaning

A team; a group of people who work together professionally..

Definitions by Sense

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
2. A small group of birds or animals.
3. (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
4. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
5. (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
6. (A group of) adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
7. (uncountable) Companionship.
8. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.

Example Sentences

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.”

Marconi set up the company who made the first radios.

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.

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Word Forms

• companies
• companie
• companying
• companied

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