company

sustantivo

1. 1

   A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

   a company of knights

2. 2

   A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. A group of performing artists who put on shows together.

   a company of actors

3. 3

   A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. The crew of a ship.

   a ship's company

4. 4

   A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.

   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.

5. 5

   A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

   It took six companies to put out the fire.

6. 6

   informalA team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. An intelligence service.

   As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.

7. 7

   informalA team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. A specific aircraft or its airline, usually used in air traffic communications to refer conveniently to another aircraft operated by the same airline.

8. 8

   A small group of birds or animals.

9. 9

   An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.

   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.”

10. 10

    An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation. Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.

    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.”

11. 11

    An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation. The members of a partnership business who are not listed in the company's name; unnamed individuals in an entourage or other group.

    Smith, Capitano and Company

    Here come Will, Martin and company.

12. 12

    Companionship.

    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

13. 13

    Companionship. One or more social visitor(s) or companion(s).

    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.

    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.”

14. 14

    figuradoCompanionship. 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).

    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.

verbo

1. 1

   arcaicoTo accompany, keep company with.

   Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an vnlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come vnto an alient […].

   it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”

2. 2

   arcaicoTo associate.

   Men which have companied with us all the time.

3. 3

   obsoletoTo be a lively, cheerful companion.

   If thee list unto the Court to throng […]there thou needs must learne, to laugh, to lie, To face, to forge, to scoffe, to companie.

4. 4

   obsoletoTo have sexual intercourse.

   companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned

Formas

plural

companies

pasado

companied

participio

companied

gerundio

companying

3.ª persona del singular

companies