Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of persons.
- noun One's companions or associates.
- noun A guest or guests.
- noun The state of friendly companionship; fellowship.
- noun A business enterprise; a firm.
- noun A partner or partners not specifically named in a firm's title.
- noun A troupe of dramatic or musical performers.
- noun A subdivision of a military regiment or battalion that constitutes the lowest administrative unit. It is usually under the command of a captain and is made up of at least two platoons.
- noun A unit of firefighters.
- noun A ship's crew and officers.
- intransitive verb To accompany or associate with.
- intransitive verb To keep company with someone; associate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To accompany; attend; go with; be companion to.
- To associate; join.
- To live in company; associate; consort or keep company.
- To be a gay companion.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- noun Friendship; an act pertaining to or befitting a friend or companion.
- noun A person or persons conjoined to or associated with another or others in any way; one or more having or coming into companionship with another or others: as, choose your company carefully; to meet company on the road.
- noun Consort of persons one with another; companionship; fellowship; association: as, to fall into company with a stranger.
- noun An assemblage or consociation of persons or, rarely, of animals; any associated or related aggregate, indefinitely.
- noun A body of persons associated for friendly intercourse, conversation, or pleasure: as, a small company to dinner.
- noun A number of persons united for performing or carrying on anything jointly: as, a company of players; an insurance company; the East India Company.
- noun A member or the members of a firm so designated without being named in the style or title of the firm: usually abbreviated when written: as, Messrs. Smith & Co.
- noun More specifically, in London, an ancient guild or incorporation of trade: as, “high in office in the Goldsmiths' company,”
- noun Milit., a subdivision of an infantry regiment or battalion, corresponding to a troop of cavalry or a battery of artillery, consisting of from 60 to 100 men, and commanded by a captain.
- noun Nautical: The crew of a ship, including the officers.
- noun A fleet.
- noun A number or collection of things.
- noun to accompany; attend; go with.
- noun To accompany; attend; associate with; remain with for companionship.
- noun To associate with as a lover or suitor.
- noun To frequent the society of as a suitor or sweetheart: as, to
keep company with a girl. - noun Synonyms Assembly, collection, group, gathering, crowd, band, horde, crew, gang, troop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To accompany or go with; to be companion to.
- intransitive verb To associate.
- intransitive verb obsolete To be a gay companion.
- intransitive verb obsolete To have sexual commerce.
- noun The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
- noun A companion or companions.
- noun An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.
- noun Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family.
- noun Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
- noun An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm.
- noun Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing.
- noun (Mil.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
- noun (Naut.) The crew of a ship, including the officers.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Worse, the apparently universal belief is that it is better to be scratchily out of sorts, or actually engaged in bitter hostilities, in some physical company at christmas, *irrespective of whether one has positively chosen or been chosen by that company* than either alone, or in chosen virtual company.
Arrive at this post a little lost? Or tired? Fatigued and isolated? Elizabeth McClung 2009
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And Mix's simplistic notion that the company owner doesn't buy the power equipment but just pockets the money misses that the way for the owner to make more money is to invest in the tools to make his or her employees more effective and so be able as a *company* compete for larger, more lucrative contracts.
You judge the new Tina Fey skit spoofing Sarah Palin. Ann Althouse 2008
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And the movie made Bevan 'and Sarah Radclyffe's company Working Title, which went on to become the major english independent producing company_______________________ New York, NY: I loved Saeed Jaffrey.
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Mrs. Panton is a huge, protuberant woman, with a full-blown face, a bay wig, and artificial flowers; talking in an affected little voice, when she is in company, and when she has on her _company clothes and manners_; but bawling loud, in a vulgarly broad cockney dialect, when she is at her ease in her own house.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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ALL, which sets the @company parameter to NULL and return results from the query as if there was no company filter.
Simple Talk rss feed 2009
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Burbage for a term of years which ended in about 1589_; that his work with Burbage from the time he entered his service was of a general nature, and more of a literary and dramatic than of an histrionic character, though it undoubtedly partook of both; that he worked in conjunction with both Richard Burbage and Edward Alleyn from the time he came to London in 1586-87 until 1591; that neither he nor Burbage were connected with the Queen's company, nor with the Curtain Theatre, during these years, _and that the ownership by the Burbage organisation of a number of old Queen's plays resulted from their absorption of Queen's men in 1591, when Pembroke's company was formed, and not from the supposed fact that James Burbage was at any time a member or the manager of the Queen's company_; that Robert Greene's attack upon Shakespeare as
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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: company def where_do_i_live company. address end end describe Pen do before (: each) do @company
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: company def where_do_i_live company. address end end describe Pen do before (: each) do @company
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: company def where_do_i_live company. address end end describe Pen do before (: each) do @company
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UpdateCommand = "UPDATE prospects SET salespn = @salespn, class = @class, updated = GetDate (), company = @company, contact = @contact, title = @title, street = @street, city = @city, state
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