COMPANY


Meaning of COMPANY in English

(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

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