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Company Definition–noun | 1. | a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people. | | 2. | a guest or guests: We're having company for dinner. | | 3. | an assemblage of persons for social purposes. | | 4. | companionship; fellowship; association: I always enjoy her company. | | 5. | one's usual companions: I don't like the company he keeps. | | 7. | a number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, esp. for business: <
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span class="ital-inline">a publishing company; a dance company. | | 8. | (initial capital letter ) the members of a firm not specifically named in the firm's title: George Higgins and Company. | | 9. | Military. | a. | the smallest body of troops, consisting of a headquarters and two or three platoons. | | b. | any relatively small group of soldiers. | | c. | Army. a basic unit with both tactical and administrative functions. | | | 10. | a unit of firefighters, including their special apparatus: a hook-and-ladder company. | | 12. | a medieval trade guild. | | 13. | the Company, Informal. a nation's major intelligence-gathering and espionage organization, as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. | –verb (used without object) | 14. | Archaic. to associate. | –verb (used with object) | 15. | Archaic. to accompany. | —Idioms | 16. | keep company, | a. | to associate with; be a friend of. | | b. | Informal. to go together, as in courtship: My sister has been keeping company with a young lawyer. | | | 17. | part company, | a. | to cease association or friendship with: We parted company 20 years ago after the argument. | | b. | to take a different or opposite view; differ: He parted company with his father on politics. | | c. | to separate: We parted company at the airport. | | |
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