Company
['kʌmp(ə)nɪ] or ['kʌmpəni]
Definition
(noun.) an institution created to conduct business; 'he only invests in large well-established companies'; 'he started the company in his garage'.
(noun.) a unit of firefighters including their equipment; 'a hook-and-ladder company'.
(noun.) a social gathering of guests or companions; 'the house was filled with company when I arrived'.
(noun.) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); 'the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel'.
(noun.) small military unit; usually two or three platoons.
(noun.) the state of being with someone; 'he missed their company'; 'he enjoyed the society of his friends'.
(verb.) be a companion to somebody.
Typist: Oliver--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
(n.) A companion or companions.
(n.) An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.
(n.) Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
(n.) Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
(n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
(n.) Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
(n.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
(n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
(n.) The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
(v. t.) To accompany or go with; to be companion to.
(v. i.) To associate.
(v. i.) To be a gay companion.
(v. i.) To have sexual commerce.
Typed by Dido
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Assemblage, assembly, body, gathering, group, circle, troop, crew, gang, set, concourse, congregation.[2]. Party, meeting of friends, social meeting.[3]. Visitor, visitors, guests.[4]. Fellowship, companionship, society.[5]. Corporation, association, partnership, copartnership, firm, house, joint concern.
Edited by Clare
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aggregation, association, union, sodality, order, fraternity, guild,corporation, society, community, assemblage, assembly, crew, posse, gang,troop, audience, congregation, concourse
ANT:Rivalry, opposition, disqualification, antagonism, counteragency, competition,counterassociation
Checker: Pamela
Definition
n. any assembly of persons: a number of persons associated together for trade &c.: a society: a subdivision of a regiment: the crew of a ship: state of being a companion: fellowship: associates: society: a gathering of people for social intercourse.—v.t. to accompany.—v.i. to associate.—Be good or bad company to have or to lack companionable qualities; Keep company to associate with: to court; Know a man by his company to determine his character by the quality of his friends.
Checker: Yale
Examples
- I say, said Legree, stamping and whistling to the dogs, wake up, some of you, and keep me company! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Justice and health of mind will be of the company, and temperance will follow after? Plato. The Republic.
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There is _one_ person in company who does not like to have Miss Price spoken of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They said little more; but were company to one another in silently pursuing the same subjects, and did not part until midnight. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, of Philadelphia, was launched Oct. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Here is a man who has not forgotten an item in our meetings at Rainbarrow--he is in company with your husband. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Will you promise to sit up with me to bear me company? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Didn't Miss Crawley remark it, who has lived in the best company in Europe? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Queer sort of company, too, for a man who has raised himself! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The merry King, nothing heeding his dignity any more than his company, laughed, quaffed, and jested among the jolly band. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- On the 22d Colonel Rodney Mason surrendered Clarksville with six companies of his regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mark for troops on foot by companies, like this, see? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the patents of Sir Waiter Raleigh, to the London and Plymouth companies, to the council of Plymouth, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Other great companies in different parts of the country soon followed with the same general system. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When within a square of the plaza this small command, ten companies in all, was brought to a halt. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They proved of use, and the same man started a service among the express companies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Wallace