(companies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
Sheila found some work as a secretary in an insurance ~.
...the Ford Motor Company.
= firm
N-COUNT-COLL; N-IN-NAMES
2.
A ~ is a group of opera singers, dancers, or actors who work together.
...the Phoenix Dance Company.
N-COUNT-COLL; N-IN-NAMES
3.
A ~ 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 ~...
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 ~’...
Ross had always enjoyed the ~ of women...
I’m not in the mood for ~.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
see also joint-stock ~ , public ~
6.
If you say that someone is in good ~, 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 ~. The prime minister made a similar slip a couple of years back.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If you have ~, you have a visitor or friend with you.
He didn’t say he had had ~.
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
When you are in ~, you are with a person or group of people.
When they were in ~ she always seemed to dominate the conversation...
? alone
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v
9.
If you feel, believe, or know something in ~ with someone else, you both feel, believe, or know it. (FORMAL)
Saudi Arabia, in ~ 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 ~, you spend time with them and stop them feeling lonely or bored.
Why don’t you stay here and keep Emma ~?
PHRASE: V inflects
11.
If you keep ~ with a person or with a particular kind of person, you spend a lot of time with them.
He keeps ~ with all sorts of lazy characters.
PHRASE: V inflects
12.
If two or more people part ~, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together. (WRITTEN)
The three of them parted ~ at the bus stop.
PHRASE: V inflects, pl-n PHR, PHR with n
13.
If you part ~ with someone, you end your association with them, often because of a disagreement. (FORMAL)
The tennis star has parted ~ with his Austrian trainer...
We have agreed to part ~ after differences of opinion.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR with n, pl-n PHR