company
nounEtymology
From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion. Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.
- derived from compaignie
- inherited from companye
Definitions
A team
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
- a company of actors
A small group of birds or animals.
An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued…
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.”
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Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also…
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.
Social visitors or companions.
- 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.
adversaries, enemies, or rivals
adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
- looks like we've got company
Companionship.
- I treasure your company.
- 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
To 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.”
To associate.
- Men which have companied with us all the time.
To 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.
To have sexual intercourse.
- companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned
The neighborhood
- synonymhave sex
- synonymmake love
- synonymcopulate
- neighboraccompany
- neighborcompanion
- neighbordiscompany
- neighborBritish East India Company
- neighbore-company
- neighborfast company
- neighborfire company
- neighborgrowth company
- neighborholding company
- neighborincorporated company
- neighborinsurance company
- neighborinvestment company
Derived
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at company. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at company. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at company
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA