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company

  • noun
  • com·pany
  • /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/

A team; a group of people who work together professionally.

Other meanings

  1. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

  2. A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.

Related words

  • present company excepted
  • present company excluded
  • don't fish off the company dock
  • freight operating company
  • train operating company
  • shell company
  • front company
  • touring company
  • road company

Example sentences

  • “Why do you want to leave your current company?”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
  • “My company has started promoting it.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
  • “The owner of a construction company is not working-class.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old French "compaignie".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “company” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.