company
/ˈkʌmpəni/ sustantivo A2En español: compañía, compaña, compañía de bomberos, firma
- A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose. · a company of knights
- A group of performing artists who put on shows together. · a company of actors
- The crew of a ship. · a ship's company
- 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
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment. · It took six companies to put out the fire.
- An intelligence service. · As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
- A specific aircraft or its airline, usually used in air traffic communications to refer conveniently to another aircraft operated by the same airline.
- A small group of birds or animals.
Plural companies
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As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice, to the company generally, “You are all pardoned.” “Come, _that’s_ a good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
Pitcher, confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit his usually expressionless countenance when his employer briskly entered at half past nine in company with his young lady stenographer.
Trees aren’t much company, though dear knows if they were there’d be enough of them.
There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matthew to tea; but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company.
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