noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a commercial company/organization
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Many commercial companies are having financial difficulties.
a company car (= one that your company gives you to use )
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She was given a company car.
a company/occupational pension (= one that your employer pays )
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I've been paying into the company pension scheme for 20 years.
a computer company
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He runs his own computer company.
a construction company/firm
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It’s the largest construction company in Mexico.
a film company/studio (= a company that produces films )
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a European film company trying to compete with the major Hollywood studios
a phone company (= one that provides a telephone service )
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I switched phone companies.
a rival company/firm
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It may have to merge with a rival company to stay in business.
aerospace company/worker etc
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employment in the aerospace industry
an electricity company
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Some electricity companies may be able to offer you an environmentally friendly option.
an employee joins a company/firm etc
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Employees who join the firm after April receive a percentage of the annual bonus.
an energy company
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a state-owned energy company
an insurance company
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Rachel works for an insurance company.
an oil company
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YPF was the state oil company in Argentina.
assembled company (= all the people who had come there )
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He looked around at the assembled company .
associated company
award a company a contract (= give them a contract )
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The state of Kentucky has awarded the firm a $10m contract.
company car
company law
company loyalty
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As people change jobs more often, company loyalty is less common.
company secretary
company/hospital/university etc policy
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It is not company policy to offer refunds.
dozens of people/companies/cars etc (= but not hundreds or thousands )
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Dozens of people were killed.
electronics company/industry/firm etc
finance company
go-ahead company
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a go-ahead company
holding company
joint-stock company
limited company
parent company
private limited company
public company
public limited company
removal company/man etc
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The removal men have been in and out all day.
reputable firm/company
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If you have a burglar alarm fitted, make sure it is done by a reputable company.
shipping company/industry/agent etc
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a Danish shipping company
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a shipping route
staff/union/company etc rep
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You need to speak to the students’ rep.
start a business/company/firm etc
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She wanted to start her own catering business.
stock company
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Like most successful independent entrepreneurs, Mr McGovern loves talking big about his company .
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The big bank holding company said the thrift, based in Las Vegas, has $ 1. 8 billion in assets.
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Full-scale commercial provision by big companies is one possible model of market-based welfare.
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Like 49ers infected with gold fever, big communications companies are rushing to the Internet with dreams of striking it rich.
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In fact, purists claim the big companies use so many the end result is not cider at all.
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Top company executives say they are well aware of the tendency of big companies to become more bureaucratic.
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The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club.
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The next big state company slated for sale after Light is Cia.
large
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Will they continue to be concentrated in large companies or will there be a growth in the relative importance of small firms?
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But such supporters as promotions by large companies might not last for long.
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We are offering an attractive remuneration package including a company car and other larger company benefits.
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Ned is a corporate planner in a large electronics products company .
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Bankruptcy for Bond Corporation, which employs 21,000 people worldwide, would represent the largest company failure in world business records.
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Three large utility companies -- AT&038;.
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But as large companies have big overheads and do not like risky ventures they often do not want to become involved.
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These large companies have obvious advantages in the service provider business because of their well-known brand names.
major
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The fall in record sales during the 1980s has damaged the newer sector of the industry more than the major companies .
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Loretta Barrett, our literary agent, was a successful editor at a major publishing company .
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With his group the Daintees, he was a high profile act with a major record company until quite recently.
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A gregarious single woman in her mid-thirties, she came to me feeling atrophied in her position with a major insurance company .
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You should then aim at getting into one of the major research companies .
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Some major companies now seem, however, capable of finding ways around the obstacles.
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Jan 16, 2001 A new alliance of major technology companies is being forged in Washington to address the problem of hacking.
multinational
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These powers are being replaced by new rights for multinational companies .
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Here I had these multinational companies fighting over me.
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A medical officer of a large multinational company once described people as being like oil rigs.
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But a strong dollar crimps big, multinational companies , which generally have a huge portion of their operations abroad.
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The government therefore turned to multinational companies as potential suitors for Rover.
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Already 70 major financial institutions and several multinational manufacturing companies have established fund management arms there.
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The government promised to draw up a charter of principles for multinational companies .
new
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According to Datamation magazine the new company would be the world's sixth largest computer and information systems company.
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A new holding company will be formed as part of the merger.
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It recently merged with a Wigan-based firm to form a new company called Longwall International.
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The proposal, which requires shareholder approval, will create a new company with shares that trade separately.
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The new company assumes responsibility for the profitable development of these sites and any future surplus land.
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Loral shareholders will get one share in the new company for each Loral share now held.
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The firms participating in this new company are among the main contributors to Conservative Party funds.
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Ian Bayer, chief executive of Hemlo Gold, will be president of the new company .
other
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Often subsidiaries are required to guarantee or give charges in support of borrowings by the parent company or other companies in the group.
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One reason for this was the lesson Philips and other consumer electronics companies had learned about the importance of global standardisation.
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The agreement is being cited as a model for other companies working in Third World countries.
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I only wish I could say the same of some other companies !
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The Military Cross, and other awards from companies and foreign governments are expected to sell for more than two thousand pounds.
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Few other company executives were in the running, not even the cigar-chomping Lee Iacocca of Chrysler.
private
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Institutional care is provided by a private company as well as by the state.
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In a private company , the market value of the stock is determined by an outside valuation performed yearly.
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The source of Mr Mukhametshin's wealth is a private company called, unsurprisingly, Anis.
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The city also hired a private company to build and run its cogeneration plant at the Miramar landfill.
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The Regulations make clear that these sections do not apply to any private companies , whether limited by shares or guarantee.
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Possible underpricing of its services, which could discourage competition from private companies .
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By a government licence under the Act, Mercury Communications, a private company , was authorized to establish a communications system.
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The private nuclear company had lost its government contract.
public
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Table A in the Schedule to the Act specifies articles of association for both private and public companies limited by shares.
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Arky, Freed had quite a few public companies as clients.
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The residual stakes would eventually be placed in a new public company 51 percent owned by the Treasury.
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However, building societies are gradually moving towards the status of public companies .
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To meet the challenge the public authority would have to be transformed into a public limited company .
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The value in sharing All public companies should report on their shareholder returns, according to Coopers &038; Lybrand.
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They accept that, in principle, it is possible for private and public companies to suffer severe financial hardship.
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To me, a public company should diversify.
small
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That's why large companies often fall and small companies step in.
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Because of their high failure rate, small entrepreneurial companies will continue to be volatile places to work.
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When a small company arranges to supply a bigger client, settlement terms of, say, 30 days may be agreed.
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But if 1996 belongs to smaller companies or foreign stocks, your portfolio could be left in the dust.
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But a small company may not set up and run its own scheme.
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A big company in a complex business pays its executives more than a small company in a simple business.
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Interestingly, the smaller the company , the more likely employees were to perceive these benefits.
■ NOUN
car
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Many employers are now cutting back on company cars .
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The company car , the company plane, the special privileges will have to be justified.
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The typical executive has a company car , private medical insurance and a company pension scheme.
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I told him that he had six months and if he performed well I'd buy him a company car .
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That was a lot of money for the time, and the horse was like having a company car today.
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The higher grades of employee were supplied, as was the custom with many firms, with shiny, new company cars .
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But he quoted a survey that reported that 51 percent of all company cars were imported.
drug
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The deadline for suing the drug companies came and went - and she had to drop out.
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Fears On the other hand what is holding the Index back is the drug companies .
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When the drugs companies insisted on time to prepare a response, Judge Bernard Ngoepe called their bluff.
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If it was a drug company , they rely pretty heavily on impressive animal test data to put the product over.
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And what of the drug companies ?
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The minister can make a decision that a drug is too expensive and the drug companies have no right to defend themselves.
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Mrs Bottomley also warned the drug companies that the prices of medicine would be closely watched.
holding
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Sun Microsystems turns SunSoft into a holding company with nine subsidiaries.
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The company must be an unquoted UK-resident company, and a trading company or the holding company of a trading group.
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Similar consent provisions may be contained in the financing arrangements of the vendor's shareholders and ultimate holding company .
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Will state holding companies be needed?
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If the operating company is to be sold, the disposal can take place at the holding company level.
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To this day the holding company owns a 25.23% blocking minority in Daimler.
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Under the new system, banks' holding companies can do almost everything directly, with the notable exception of trading securities.
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The holding company form has been used to provide a buffer between the state enterprises themselves and political direction by the state.
insurance
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Yes, I have changed insurance companies and, yes, I have asked for written confirmation of cover.
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The salesmen spoke with institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies , and savings and loans.
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Building societies were converting into banks, insurance companies were changing their status, the air was thick with windfalls.
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But most analysts agree that many health insurance companies would be driven out of business.
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He already has the backing of £4.5 million from the Prudential insurance company .
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This insurance company may be looking for a safe mortgage.
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Wright, for example, traded on the fact that he was the agent of a well-known insurance company .
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A gregarious single woman in her mid-thirties, she came to me feeling atrophied in her position with a major insurance company .
law
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This point can perhaps also be illustrated by some of the recent legislative reforms of company law .
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Rather, the focus on shareholder interests results from a private conception of the company and company law .
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It is therefore not unlikely that before long Parliament may abolish the ultravires rule in company law altogether.
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I actually gave a few lectures there myself on company law .
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Within company law doctrine this idea has no real impact.
oil
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This listed the names of oil company directors who may have committed offences.
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Chandler turned to detective fiction after being fired from his job at an oil company because of his drinking problem.
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The film was financed by off-shore oil company money and there were no health and safety standards.
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The oil company pays no property taxes.
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Public finance and expenditure Relationships between oil companies and host Governments have frequently been uneasy and sometimes open conflicts have developed.
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No major oil company has agreed yet to blend the product into its gasoline.
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He was told that the oil companies did not directly employ many of the drivers, who were self-employed subcontractors.
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And major oil companies , many of which have substantial operations in the home state of House Ways&038;.
parent
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The main disadvantage is that political or economic instability within the country may cause problems outside the control of the parent company .
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Based in King of Prussia, Pa., Centeon consists of the existing blood-plasma divisions from both parent companies .
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There is tremendous scope for MBOs to create value, both for parent companies and private equity investors.
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Blockbuster Inc's parent company , Viacom Inc, owns mount Pictures.
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It has been developed and refined over the last four years by engineers at the company's parent company, General Motors.
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His new parent company may now be adding different tension as he lays plans to rationalise staffing structures.
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Its parent company runs tugs, shipping and heavy engineering businesses.
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The parent company has issued a legally-binding letter of support to the subsidiary.
phone
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Any phone company that puts loyalty above flexibility is destined for the morgue.
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The Official Family was like the phone company .
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Then the Government quietly pulled out and turned the operation over to a handful of communications giants and the long-distance phone companies .
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Commissioners will thrash out how much phone companies can charge their competitors for using their lines in various ways.
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Target customers include the regional Bell operating companies , independent phone companies, and network software suppliers.
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The education program, ordered by state regulators, is the largest undertaken by a phone company .
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It is just a matter of time before the big phone companies squeeze the small players out by underpricing them.
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You need a contract with a phone company to activate the phone and purchase service.
record
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Although Thorn has backed away from chrome, other record companies are supporting it.
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You know, when the Beatles started there was a record company guy who said electric guitar music was finished.
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He talks about being shipped around London like cattle at the beck and call of the record company with a weary shrug.
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As a result, record companies frequently receive demos tapes suited to a publisher's attention.
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To that end, the agent meets with an artist's management and its record company to decide the best touring period.
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They are likely to be in debt to their record company for a number of years.
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They talked to the record companies .
■ VERB
based
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Membership, from £200 a year based on company turnover, gives access to all these.
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The Millsboro, Oregon-#based company is expected to release fiscal third-quarter earnings tomorrow before the stock market opens.
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The Montreal-#based company blamed acquisitions and system upgrades for missing the target and said it will cut 150 jobs.
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The Denver-#based company initially raises $ 20 million in equity from several nationally prominent venture capital groups around the country.
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The Ivrea-#based company has reported four straight years of losses and two capital increases in as many years.
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The Chicago-#based company set aside $ 210 million in the fourth quarter to cover loan losses.
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Excluding the gain, the Redmond, Washington-#based software company said per-share earnings rose to 87 cents.
enjoy
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I enjoy your company , this is where we should eat our meals, together, of course it is.
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They had enjoyed each other's company over the last hour, hacking along the foreshore of the estuary.
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You know: you have to sort of get into what women do, be part of it. Enjoy their company .
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She had always enjoyed men's company .
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He relied on Charlie, and enjoyed his company .
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We enjoyed your company and hope you will return ere long.
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Johnnie Warburton used to work turn-about with him and they enjoyed each other's company .
hold
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Again, these can not be holding companies , but may carry out financing, factoring, treasury management and similar activities.
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P., his privately held company , of $ 2 billion.
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The internet, he argues, is dissolving the economic glue that holds traditional companies together.
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Most recently, he was chief executive officer of Cibus Pharmaceutical Inc., a privately held drugdelivery company .
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Some argue that downsizing is dissolving the glue that has traditionally held companies together, and without which they may never flourish.
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Pursue is a privately held energy company .
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Well, closely held companies often need the money available on the public stock exchanges.
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A dozen Fortune 500 largest publicly held companies have headquarters in Dallas or its suburbs.
join
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Everyone is most welcome to join this happy company .
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The senior teacher, Gerd Larsen, joined the company in 1944.
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Ian had been Group Financial Controller since he joined the company in 1989.
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My lady and her women are lodged in the guesthouse, you need have no fears in joining their company .
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He had joined his present company seventeen years before, with the 124 presidency of the company as his goal.
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Since joining the company in March, Carpenter has developed a strategy to fend off Oakley.
sell
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Pro-Fit's president, Yehuda Mendelson, who sold the company to Norton's share price.
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Still others sold out to larger companies .
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Investors can sell shares in the companies they dislike, and hold on to stock in the ones they favor.
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He sells his company and he sells himself marketing his own deeply held convictions.
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But unfortunately at the same time they are trying to sell their companies to you.
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The devices could be sold to schools and companies that need limited functionality from a computer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blue-chip companies/shares etc
competing products/brands/companies etc
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A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making.
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Being a suspicious soul I also ran a competing companies test disk on the system.
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Invariably, the own-brand range is offered at lower prices than the competing brands.
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Price is now the main factor differentiating competing brands.
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They do not adjust their shopping list to take advantage of price fluctuations among competing products.
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This analysis will use recently developed techniques for measuring the competitiveness of a product amongst a group of similar competing products.
in mixed company
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Most of us are happy in mixed company.
in polite society/circles/company
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You can't use words like that in polite company.
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Her passion for natural history became increasingly fashionable in polite society during the 17605.
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In the good old days of rampant dualism, the mind was rarely mentioned in polite society.
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It was not the sort of thing you did in polite company.
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It was obvious from the scenes that such behavior did not belong in polite society.
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Trevor Proby is another, of course, but his notables should not be discussed in polite company.
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With sad paradox, Mr Punch himself became the man in the Bateman cartoon, unwelcome in polite company.
offshore banks/companies/investments etc
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A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate.
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All plans are offered with guaranteed clean title in offshore companies.
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For a good ways more, Collymore sailed onward to the offshore banks and then anchored.
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The table below shows the best deals currently available from offshore banks and building societies.
part company (with sb)
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After some participation in the Great Awakening as a youth, he parted company with its proponents.
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After the two Penns parted company, the son found solace in a happy marriage to GuliGulielma Maria Springett.
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At the crossroads to the south of Norwood we parted company.
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Every one of us felt sad at having to part company with our particular horse or mule.
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Happily there were no injuries to those few horses and riders who did part company.
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Robson departs Bryan Robson has parted company with Middlesbrough after seven years in charge.
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We walked the half-block to my car and then parted company.
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Where dreams and reality parted company was about marriage and the dowry.
present company excepted
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All men are selfish pigs - present company excepted.
sister paper/publication/company etc
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And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there.
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At any rate, the most prominent critic was Nick Seitz, the editorial director of Golf Digest and its sister publications.
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Journalists on our sister paper, the Liverpool Echo, also won awards yesterday.
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Our sister company, the Snakes, made the first assault in the morning and received very little opposition.
two's company, three's a crowd
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Do you mind if I join you?" "No of course not, it's nice to have some company ."
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Come over for dinner - I could use the company .
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Davis joined the company as vice-president of sales nine months ago.
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I go to French evening classes, for the company as much as for the French.
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I was grateful for Jean's company on the long journey up to Edinburgh.
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I wasn't much company for Aunt Margaret tonight.
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It's not company policy to exchange goods without a receipt.
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It is the second largest insurance company in Germany.
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My father used to work for one of the big oil companies.
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Now that she's gone, I really miss her company .
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The company employs over 10,000 people worldwide.
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The company was set up in 1975.
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What company do you work for?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was grateful to be in a company that recognized the value of education and training for management.
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Her brain, as usual, seemed to have seized up in Roman's overpowering company .
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The company I was in was extremely fortunate.
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The company says that it has received inquiries from about 470 companies, of which perhaps a quarter are potential customers.
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The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.
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The results were later played down by the company .