company
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
espionage
government
law
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
Etymology: From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.
Inflected forms:
form: companies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: companie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a company of actors
gloss: A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It took six companies to put out the fire.
gloss: A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
gloss: A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A small group of birds or animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.”
gloss: Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.”
gloss: One or more social visitor(s) or companion(s).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.”
gloss: One or more other person(s) who are nearby, are approaching, or are (e.g. covertly) watching, especially if they may have hostile intentions (like adversaries or rivals).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Get your guns ready: intel said there'd be no hostiles in the area, but it looks like we've got company.
I thought we'd be the only ones exploring this abandoned tunnel system today, but judging by that light up ahead, it looks like we've got company. I wonder if it's anyone we know.
gloss: Companionship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
So I go into the darkness of the night / All alone I walk the streets until I find / Someone who is just like me / Looking for some company
Related words: accompany
companion
discompany
Derived words: a man is known by the company he keeps
and company
bad company
biocompany
blank check company
bubble company
community interest company
companization
company car
company clinic
company doctor
company front
company law
company man
company officer
company register
company seal
company sergeant major
company-specific
company store
company time
company town
company union
companywide
compliance company
daughter company
fish and company stink after three days
freight operating company
ghost company
in-company
in company with
intercompany
intracompany
keep company
keep someone company
letterbox company
limited company
mailbox company
megacompany
merry company
misery enjoys company
misery loves company
multicompany
noncompany
oil company
part company
present company excepted
private limited liability company
public limited company
public limited liability company
record company
shell company
shipping company
subcompany
supercompany
telco
the company
touring company
two's company and three is none
two's company, three's a crowd
umbrella company
unlimited company
we have company
who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl
you don't dip your pen in company ink
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: besoek
lang: Afrikaans
word: besoekers
lang: Belarusian
word: тавары́ства
roman: tavarýstva
lang: Belarusian
word: го́сці
roman: hósci
lang: Bulgarian
word: го́сти
roman: gósti
lang: Czech
word: společnost
lang: Dutch
word: bezoek
lang: Dutch
word: bezoekers
lang: Estonian
word: seltskond
lang: Finnish
word: vieraat
lang: Finnish
word: seura
lang: French
word: compagnie
lang: German
word: Besuch
lang: German
word: Besucher
lang: Hungarian
word: társaság
lang: Indonesian
word: besuk
lang: Japanese
word: 訪問者
roman: hōmonsha
lang: Korean
word: 방문자
roman: bangmunja
lang: Macedonian
word: друштво
roman: društvo
lang: Polish
word: goście
lang: Polish
word: asysta
lang: Portuguese
word: visita
lang: Russian
word: компа́ния
roman: kompánija
lang: Russian
word: го́сти
roman: gósti
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cuideachd
lang: Spanish
word: visitantes
lang: Ukrainian
word: товари́ство
roman: tovarýstvo
lang: Ukrainian
word: го́сті
roman: hósti