transcription, транскрипция: [ kʌmpəni ]
( 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.
see also joint-stock company , public company
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