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Etymology

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.

Noun

company (countable and uncountable; plural companies)

  1. A group of individuals with a common purpose
    a company of actors.
  2. (law, business) An entity that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture. A corporation.
  3. (business) Any business, without respect to incorporation.
  4. (uncountable) Social visitors.
    • Keep the house clean, I have company coming.
  5. (uncountable) companionship.
    • I treasure your company.
  6. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
    • The Boys in Company C.
  7. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
    • It took six companies to put out the fire.
  8. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
  9. (espionage) Nickname for an intelligence service.
    • As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.

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company (third-person singular simple present companies, present participle companying, simple past and past participle companied)

  1. (archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts X:
      Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
      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.”

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