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What (who) is company - definition
LEGAL ENTITY REPRESENTING AN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE, WHETHER NATURAL, LEGAL OR A MIXTURE OF BOTH, WITH A SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE
Companies; Company (law); Company (legal); Incorporated company; And sons; And co.; And company; Registered Companies; Registered company; Campany; Firm; ㏇; Compnay; Cmpany; Coy.; Comapny
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company
(companies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
Sheila found some work as a secretary in an insurance company.
...the Ford Motor Company.
= firm
N-COUNT-COLL; N-IN-NAMES
2.
A company is a group of opera singers, dancers, or actors who work together.
...the Phoenix Dance Company.
N-COUNT-COLL; N-IN-NAMES
3.
A company is a group of soldiers that is usually part of a battalion or regiment, and that is divided into two or more platoons.
The division will consist of two tank companies and one infantry company...
N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES
4.
Company is having another person or other people with you, usually when this is pleasant or stops you feeling lonely.
'I won't stay long.'-'No, please. I need the company'...
Ross had always enjoyed the company of women...
I'm not in the mood for company.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
6.
If you say that someone is in good company, you mean that they should not be ashamed of a mistake or opinion, because some important or respected people have made the same mistake or have the same opinion.
Mr Koo is in good company. The prime minister made a similar slip a couple of years back.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
He didn't say he had had company.
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
When you are in company, you are with a person or group of people.
When they were in company she always seemed to dominate the conversation...
? alone
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v
9.
If you feel, believe, or know something in company with someone else, you both feel, believe, or know it. (FORMAL)
Saudi Arabia, in company with some other Gulf oil states, is concerned to avoid any repetition of the two oil price shocks of the 1970s.
PREP-PHRASE: PHR n
10.
If you keep someone company, you spend time with them and stop them feeling lonely or bored.
Why don't you stay here and keep Emma company?
PHRASE: V inflects
11.
If you keep company with a person or with a particular kind of person, you spend a lot of time with them.
He keeps company with all sorts of lazy characters.
PHRASE: V inflects
12.
If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together. (WRITTEN)
The three of them parted company at the bus stop.
PHRASE: V inflects, pl-n PHR, PHR with n
13.
If you part company with someone, you end your association with them, often because of a disagreement. (FORMAL)
The tennis star has parted company with his Austrian trainer...
We have agreed to part company after differences of opinion.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR with n, pl-n PHR
company
¦ noun (plural companies)
1. a commercial business.
2. the fact or condition of being with another or others.
a person as a source of friendship and entertainment: she is excellent company.
a visitor or visitors: I'm expecting company.
3. a group of people gathered together.
a body of soldiers, especially the smallest subdivision of an infantry battalion.
a group of actors, singers, or dancers who perform together.
Brit. a group of Guides.
¦ verb (companies, companying, companied) archaic associate with or accompany.
Phrases
in company with together with.
keep (or archaic bear) someone company spend time with someone to prevent them feeling lonely or bored.
keep company with associate with habitually.
Origin
ME: from OFr. compainie; related to compaignon (see companion1).
company
n.
military unit consisting of several platoons
1) to command a company (a captain commands a company)
2) to deploy; form a company
3) a cannon; headquarters; infantry company
companionship
4) to keep (smb.) company; to seek smb.'s company
5) to part company with
6) (good) company for (the children were good company for us)
guests
7) to have; invite company (we enjoy having company)
associates
association
gathering of persons
8) to keep company with
9) mixed company (don't use that word in mixed company)
10) (colloq.) bad, fast company ('reckless, wild associates') (he runs around in/with fast company)
11) present company ('those present') (present company excepted)
12) in company (to behave appropriately in company; in company with smb.)
firm
13) to manage, operate, run a company
14) to establish, form a company
15) a finance; holding; insurance; investment; joint-stock; shipping; transport (esp. BE), transportation company
16) an opera; repertory (esp. BE), stock (AE); theatrical company
17) (BE) a (public) limited company (AE prefers corporation)
18) a company fails, goes bankrupt
fire-fighting unit
19) an engine, hose; ladder company
Wikipedia
Company
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms, such as:
- voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations
- business entities, whose aim is generating profit
- financial entities and banks
- programs or educational institutions
A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duty according to the publicly declared incorporation, or published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations.
Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies; the resulting entities are often known as corporate groups.
Examples of use of company
1. Saudi Tejari Company is a limited stock company, partnered between Technical Investments Company and National Company for Information Systems.
2. Balubaid Company and Abdullatif Alissa Automotive Company.
3. The three ventures are Gulf Olefine Company, Jubail Petrochemical Company and United Asian Company.
4. Joining Zamil in the new company is Kuwait Financing House, Enmaa Real Estate Company, Enmaa House for Real Estate Company, and UAE’s Platinum Investment Company.
5. The mining company previously held 4.3 percent, the company said.