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Company   /kˈəmpəni/   Listen
noun
Company  n.  (pl. companies)  
1.
The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse. "Evil company doth corrupt good manners." "Brethren, farewell: your company along I will not wish."
2.
A companion or companions. "To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome."
3.
An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient. "Thou shalt meet a company of prophets."
4.
Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
5.
Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse. "Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company."
6.
An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
7.
Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
8.
(Mil.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
9.
(Naut.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
10.
The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
To keep company with. See under Keep, v. t.
Synonyms: Assemblage; assembly; society; group; circle; crowd; troop; crew; gang; corporation; association; fraternity; guild; partnership; copartnery; union; club; party; gathering.



verb
Company  v. t.  (past & past part. companied; pres. part. companying)  To accompany or go with; to be companion to. (Obs.)



Company  v. i.  
1.
To associate. "Men which have companied with us all the time."
2.
To be a gay companion. (Obs.)
3.
To have sexual commerce. (Obs.)






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"Company" Quotes from Famous Books



... hung the wrong men. That would be serious, and perhaps dangerous to them. They reflected that only Ben's speech had turned the tide of sentiment, and the two thieves had been hung on the unsupported word of a boy. Might not this occur to some of the company in some of their cooler moments? They decided in a secret conference that it would be best for them to get away early the next morning—that is, as early as practicable—before any change had come over the ...
— Ben's Nugget - A Boy's Search For Fortune • Horatio, Jr. Alger

... many a pang yet before you. It must be so very hard to see twin children part company, to have their paths diverge so soon. But the shadow of death will not always rest on your home; you will emerge from its obscurity into such a light as they who have never sorrowed can not know. We never know, or begin to know, ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

... has rung, and we go away in company. He has pulled off his blue trousers and tunic and thrown them into a corner—two objects which have grown heavy and rusty, like tools. But the dirty shell of his toil did upholster him a little, and he emerges from it gaunter, and horribly squeezed within the littleness of a torturing jacket. ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse

... whether grafted or vngrafted. For although we suppose, that no noysome beast, or other thing must haue accesse among your trees: yet by casualty, a Dog, Cat, or such like, or your selfe, or negligent friend bearing you company, or a shrewd boy, may tread or fall vpon a young and tender plant or graft. To auoid these and many such chances, you must stake them round a pretty distance from the set, neither so neere, nor so thicke, but that it may haue the benefit of Sun, raine, ...
— A New Orchard And Garden • William Lawson

... measures which arise in the course of public business are related to, or depend on, some great leading general principles in government, a man must be peculiarly unfortunate in the choice of his political company, if he does not agree with them at least nine times in ten. If he does not concur in these general principles upon which the party is founded, and which necessarily draw on a concurrence in their application, he ought ...
— Proportional Representation - A Study in Methods of Election • John H. Humphreys


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