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Definition: Company |
CompanyNoun1. An institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage". 2. Organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel". 3. The state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends". 4. Small military unit; usually two or three platoons. 5. A band of people associated temporarily in some activity; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen". 6. A social gathering of guests or companions; "the house was filled with company when I arrived". 7. A social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company". 8. A unit of firefighters including their equipment: "a hook-and-ladder company". 9. Crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship. Verb1. Be a companion to somebody. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "company" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | COMPANY, T. H. E., a man and woman who invariably called when we were taking a nap or dressing. Charming conversationalists. Recreation: Tea. Ambition: An invitation to dinner. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Law | A legal association of persons with a certain specified object; almost always for the purpose of profit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Standard english: Company, guest, visitor. Definition: Relatives have arrived. Context: Called out as a warning to fellow household members upon first sighting an arriving car of other Clan members. Social Source: Smith Clan. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | COMPANY. To see company; to enter into a course of prostitution. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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The British East India Company, originally two very similarly named companies, and popularly known as John Company, founded by the Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, comprised the most powerful commercial enterprise of its day.
The original company, The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, merged in 1702 with The English Company Trading to the East Indies (which had been formed in 1698), to become The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies.
Impact
Based in Leadenhall Street, London, its influence reached out to all continents: it presided over the creation of British India, founded Hong Kong and Singapore, employed Captain Kidd to combat piracy, established tea in India, held Napoleon captive on St Helena, and made the fortune of Elihu Yale, and its products were the subject of the Boston Tea Party.
Its flag possibly inspired the Stars and Stripes (as argued by Sir Charles Fawcett in 1937), its shipyards provided the model for St. Petersburg, elements of its administration survive in Indian bureaucracy, and its corporate structure was the most successful early example of a joint stock company. But the demands of Company officers on the treasury of Bengal contributed tragically to the province's incapacity in the face of a famine which killed millions (1770).
History
Initially, however, it made little impression on the Dutch control of the Spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies in the early years. Yet it succeeded beyond measure in establishing military dominance and a political empire for Britain in the East, gaining strongholds in the 17th century in Surat, Bombay, Madras (1639) and Calcutta.
In 1711, the Company established a trading post in Canton (Guangzhou), in China.
In 1757 Clive's victory at Plassey for the company during the Seven Years' War achieved British supremacy over the French on the Indian peninsula allowed the company to take effective control of Bengal, India's most populous and lucrative province.
In the years 1775–83 North America gained independance from Great Britain, imperial focus was brought accross the globe to India where it was the center of colonial interest for the first time. The Eastern British armies at home swelled as did those of the East India company.
By the middle of the 19th century, the Company's rule extended across most of India, Burma, Singapore and Hong Kong, and a fifth of the world's population was under its authority. The Company had at various stages defeated China, occupied the Philippines, and conquered Java. It had solved its cash crisis needed to buy tea, by exporting Indian-grown opium to China, whose efforts to end the trade led to two wars with Britain.
Deprived of its trade monopoly in 1813 and wound up as a trading enterprise twenty years later, the Company lost its administrative functions to the British government in 1858 following the Sepoy Mutiny of the previous year. When the Company finally reverted to the Crown in 1874, The Times reported, "it accomplished a work such as in the whole history of the human race no other company ever attempted and as such is ever likely to attempt in the years to come."
See also:
- Company rule in India (part of the History of South Asia series)
- Imperialism in Asia (part of the New Imperialism series)
- The Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602
- The Dutch West India Company, founded in 1621
- The French East India Company, founded in 1664
- The London Virginia Company, founded in 1606
- East India Company College
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- a company (military unit)
- a corporation
- a partnership
- Company (musical) by Stephen Sondheim
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A company is a military unit, typically consisting of about 100-200 soldiers.In the United States military, it refers to a group of 150-300 soldiers formed into three to six platoons, and typically commanded by a captain. Several companies form a battalion.
In the US and Canadian militaries (at least), individual companies are identified by letter - "B company", "company K", and so forth. The letters are often pronounced using the NATO phonetic alphabet or formerly the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet, resulting in names such as Charlie Company and Easy Company, some of which have become familiar.
See also: Military structure
- Able Company
- Alpha Company
- Baker Company
- Bravo Company
- Charlie Company
- Dog Company
- Delta Company
- Easy Company
- Echo Company
- Fox Company
- Foxtrot Company
- George Company
- Golf Company
- How Company
- Hotel Company
- Item Company
- India Company
- Jig Company
- Juliet Company
- King Company
- Kilo Company
- Love Company
- Lima Company
- Mike Company
- November Company
- Oscar Company
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Company is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. It concerns the relationships between Robert, a single man who is celebrating his 35th birthday, and the five married couples who are his best friends. Unlike most musicals which follow a clearly delineated plot, Company is comprised of short scenes in no particular chronological order, all of them apparently taking place in Robert's memory at a single moment during his surprise birthday party. Among the memorable songs in the show are "The Little Things You Do Together", "Another Hundred People", "Getting Married Today", "The Ladies Who Lunch", "Being Alive", and the title song."Company" opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on April 26, 1970 and starred Dean Jones, Barbara Barrie, Charles Kimbrough, and Elaine Stritch. It was the first of several successful collaborations between Sondheim and director Harold Prince. It went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Company (musical)."
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A corporation is a legal entity, other than a natural person which often has similar rights in law as a person. This is referred to as corporate personhood and is seen by critics as a fundamental flaw in the nature of corporations. In civil law systems corporations are referred to as moral persons and may also go by the name SA (society anonymous) or something similar, depending on the language. In modern practice, corporation is often used more narrowly to mean commercial entities created within a governmental framework. However, monasteries, interest-groups, (both can be formed as not-for-profit corporations) cities and townships (often chartered as public corporations) among others, may also have corporate identities, some with lengthy histories.
=General=
Legal Status
Within the official framework, a corporation or in some jurisdictions a company, is a legal, artificial entity with or without stockholders, who may be humans, trusts or other corporations. When there are no stockholders this may be a non-stock corporation, a membership corporation or similar name — this second type of corporations are not-for-profit corporations. In either category, the corporation is a collective of individuals with a distinct legal status with special privileges that are not given to ordinary unincorporated businesses, voluntary associations or groups of individuals. Corporations are chartered by a state, and regulated by the laws enacted by that state. Its activities will generally be regulated by the law of the state in which the corporation operates, if different from the state in which it was formed.Some jurisdictions do not allow the use of the word company alone to denote corporate status, since the word company may refer to a partnership or may merely be part of the business entities name. Some of the magic words used to signify corporation status that can only be used with state sanction include: Limited (Ltd.), Unlimited, Incorporated (Inc.), Corporation (Corp.), S.A. (Société anonyme), GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung). Some jurisdictions require that one of a list of terms or abbreviations appear in the corporate name. Generally speaking if a corporate, be it domestically created or foreign (from another jurisdiction) it must be registered to conduct business in a state, such a registry will also designate the principal addresss of the corporation, i.e. where it may be contacted for legal process.
Sometimes called a fictional person, legal person or a moral person (as opposed to a natural person); in the United States this is known as the doctrine of corporate personhood. Under such a doctrine, obviously a legal fiction, a corporation enjoys many (or all) of the rights and obligations of individual citizens such as the ability to own property, sign binding contracts , pay taxes, have constitutional rights and otherwise participate in society. Typically a corporation is governed by a board of directors which has a fiduciary duty to look after the interests of the corporation. The corporate officers such as the CEO, president, treasurer and other titled offices manage the affairs of the corporation.
Benefits of forming a Corporation
Two of the most salient features of incorporation are:
- (1) Limited Liability. Unlike in a partnership, stockholders of a corporation are not liable for the corporation's debts and obligations. As a result their losses are limited to the amount which they paid for the stock. Not only does this allow businesses to engage in risky enterprises, but limited liability is also the basis for trading in corporate stock. Without the limitation on the amount that an investor can lose, the time and effort required to determine whether the stock could wipe the investor out would render the stock market very illiquid (as is observed of the very illiquid market for partnership interests).
- (2) Perpetual Lifetime. The assets and structure of the corporation exist beyond the lifetime of any of its shareholders, officers or directors. This allows for capital to be stable, and thus invested in larger and longer term projects, than if the corporate assets were subject to dissolution and distribution. This feature was also very important in the Medieval period, when land donated to the Church (a corporation) would not generate the feudel fees that a lord was entitled to upon a landholder's death. In this regard, see Statute of Mortmain.
Origins
Early corporations of the commercial sort, such as the Dutch East India Company were formed under frameworks set up by governments to undertake tasks which were too risky or too expensive for individuals or the governments to embark upon.Kenneth Pomeranz, an economic historian, argues that the need to perform pseudo-governmental operations such as the waging of war was the reason this economic structure developed in Europe and not in China or the Middle East.
Non-profit Organizations
In modern economic systems, the corporate form of governance is commonly used for a wide variety of business and non-profit activities. Though the laws governing these creatures of statute are often different the courts often interpret provisions of the law that apply to profit making enterprises in the same manner, or in a similar manner, when applying principles to non-profit organizations as the underlying structures between these two types of entity are often very similar.
National Features
United States
In the United States there are several corporate forms; what are generally called corporations are businesses run for profit that have been granted corporate charters by the States of the United States. The federal government of the United States usually does not grant corporate charters to businesses (exceptions include public corporations such as the Post Office and Amtrak). American corporations are typically chartered in Delaware, which charges no tax on activities outside the state and has courts experienced in business law. Corporations set up for privacy or asset protection are often chartered in Nevada, which allows setting them up with no record of who owns them.Historically, most U.S. states issued charters for fixed lengths of time (e.g. a manufacturing corporation might be chartered for forty years), and only by an act of the legislature. The theory behind a limited charter was that it forced corporations to remain accountable to government (i.e. the community) for the special privileges granted to them. Investors protested that it actually led to unhealthy amounts of political payoffs and graft. Most states now charter unlimited-term corporations for a small fee, and possibly a yearly tax.
Canada
In Canada both the federal government and the provinces have corporate statutes, and thus a corporation may have a provincial or federal charter. Many older corporations in Canada were created by an Act of Parliament before the general corporation law was passed.Related topics: Preferred stock, Corporate governance, Bylaws, Delaware corporation, Commercial law, Stock certificates
=Corporate Taxation=
In the United States
In the United States business corporations are taxed according to several different categories. The United States Internal Revenue Service classifies organizations as associations (taxable as corporations), partnerships (not limited to common-law partnerships) or trusts ("ordinary trusts"). [see 26 CFR §§301.7701-2 through 301.7701-4]The two types of corporations for taxation purposes are:
C-Corp - Most common form of corporation, the C-corporation has few ownership restrictions and must pay corporate taxes; all publicly traded corporations are C-corporations. C-corporations pay income taxes just as an individual does, and C-corporations do not receive a deduction on dividends they pay to stockholders. This leads to the so-called "double-taxation" of corporate profits: a given profit will be subject to income tax twice, once at the corporate level, as an item of income, and once at the stockholder level, as a dividend.
S-Corp - Commonly used by small business proprietors, the S-corporation pays no corporate taxes, but instead passes profits and losses directly to its owners (the stockholders) who declare such profits and losses as part of their personal income taxes). In this manner they are similar to partnerships, although there are some subtle differences in taxation. As a result, S-corporations are not subject to the "double-taxation" that C-corporations are. However, S-corporation treatment is not available to all corporations. An S-corporation must generally have no more than 75 stockholders, all of the stockholders must be natural persons (not other corporations or entities) who are U.S. residents, and the S-corporation can only issue a single class of stock.
=Other related types of Business Entities=
Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships
A partnership is a contractual agreement between individuals and/or corporations in which profits and losses are shared. It is similar to a sole proprietorship but it has more than one member, each called partners. A partnership is not considered a separate entity and the partners are all liable for the debts of each partner (if contracted to on behalf of the partnership). Usually a partnership will not survive the death of one of the partners (though it may be reorganized at that time).A partnership can have general partners and limited partners (also known as silent partners). General partners are liable for all of the debts and obligations of the partnership. Limited partners, on the other hand, are liable only for the amounts they have specifically agreed to contribute to the partnership pursuant to the partnership agreement.
A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a partnership composed entirely of limited partners without any general partner. In most U.S. jurisdictions, limited liability partnership are, for historical reasons, restricted to associations of professionals such as lawyers and doctors. However, this restriction is fairly meaningless since the same legal result can be achieved using the form of a limited liability company.
Limited Liability Company
The limited liability company (LLC) is similar to a partnership in that it provides a very flexible structure. A limited liability company has members, rather than partners, and is governed by an operating agreement, rather than a partnership agreement. Otherwise it is very similar to a partnership in that the members can contractually arrange in the operating agreement for the management and economic provisions that they wish.Many lawyers and businesspersons prefer the limited liability company form of taxation because of its extreme flexibility and favorable tax treatment.
Business Trusts
There is also a final type of business entity that can be used, though it is most often used as a vehicle for investment purposes, called a business trust. Only a few jurisdictions allow for the creation of business trusts, most notably Massachusetts. In many jurisdictions it has become popular as a vehicle for investing in real estate, which are called real estate investment trusts or REITs (pronounced reets).
Taxation of Non-Corporate Entities
Since 1996, United States partnerships and limited liability companies have been able to elect whether to be treated as corporations or "flow-through" entities under the IRS' check the box regulations (see form 8832). A flow-through entity is not treated as a person for income tax purposes, instead its income and loss (and every other tax attribute) is divided up among its partners and reported by them to the IRS. There are some limits on an entity's ability to elect flow-through treatment, the most important of which is a publicly-traded company cannot elect flow-through treatment; as a practical matter this means that publicly traded corporations are subject to a more stringent tax regime than closely held companies.=See also=
- Corporate personhood
- Lists of companies
- Public Limited Company (plc)
- Corporate state
- Guild
- Corporatism
- Venture capital
- Corporate governance
- Student corporation
Quote
- Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn. ---- Andrew Jackson
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corporation."
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This is a list of companies.
List of companies by country
- List of American companies
- List of Argentine companies
- List of Australian companies
- List of Austrian companies
- List of Belgian companies
- List of Brazilian companies
- List of British companies
- List of Canadian companies
- List of Chinese companies
- List of Danish companies
- List of Dutch companies
- List of Egyptian companies
- List of Estonian companies
- List of Finnish companies
- List of French companies
- List of German companies
- List of Greek companies
- List of Indian companies
- List of Irish companies
- List of Israeli companies
- List of Italian companies
- List of Japanese companies
- List of Korean companies
- List of Malaysian companies
- List of Mexican companies
- List of New Zealand companies
- List of Norwegian companies
- List of Portuguese companies
- List of Puerto Rican companies
- List of Romanian companies
- List of Russian companies
- List of Slovenian companies
- List of Spanish companies
- List of Swedish companies
- List of Swiss companies
- List of Vietnamese companies
List of companies by industry
- List of advertisement agencies
- List of aircraft manufacturers
- List of airlines
- List of automobile manufacturers
- List of banks
- List of bus companies
- List of economics consultancies and think tanks
- List of famous department stores
- List of gas stations (and oil companies)
- List of packaging companies
- List of pharmaceutical companies
- List of railway companies
- List of research companies
- List of ship companies
- List of software companies
- List of supermarkets
- List of restaurant chains
- List of fast-food restaurant chains
See also
- List of European companies
- List of company name etymologies
- List of company registers
- List of enlisted companies
- List of who owns what
- List of US defense contractors
- Lists by country
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lists of companies."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Co. | English | Company | Business, Industry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CompanySynonyms: caller (n), companionship (n), fellowship (n), party (n), ship's company (n), society (n), troupe (n), accompany (v), companion (v), keep company (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: cy (business, industry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; coefficiency. |
Assemblage | Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. |
Combatant | Army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. |
Party | Corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine, trust. |
Sociality | Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My company sells an image (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) The truth is, you just cost the insurance company $2,700. You're a terrible risk (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) He will be in cahoots with the Columbia Record and Tape Company guy who's been after my ass for years (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) Okay, thanks for the company. I hope I can repay you someday (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) My company. (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) | |
Lyrics | Keep all good company oohoo oohoo (Good Company; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May) Workin' for the company (Love In An Elevator; performing artist: Aerosmith) And now the company jumps when he plays reveille (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) Show me your company (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree) But now that I got this little company (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) | |
Clever | If you do a good job and work hard, you may get a job with a better company someday. (references; author: unknown) You work for a defense contractor if your badge company name is applied with scotch tape. (references; author: unknown) I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining. (references; author: unknown) People pick bad things from bad company very quickly, but good company takes a good time to give good things to them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bad Company (2002) Mixed Company (1974) Maracaibo Petroleum Company (1974) Faraday and Company (1973) Our Man In the Company (1973) | |
Song Titles | Good Company (performing artist: Queen) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Custom House. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 255. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | East side of Portsmouth Square, spring of 1850. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 358. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | "Manning the pumps" on the TERRA NOVA headed across the Southern Ocean. In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 10. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | "The first iceberg." P. 10. In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 10. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Lobster traps on the pier at Point Lobster Company. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A shark fishing boat at Crosby's Fish & Shrimp Company pier. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | East Timbalier Island from the gulf side looking North toward the Bay. This image shows the Greenhill Oil Company facility. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The Greenhill Oil Company headquarters. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Figure 41. Current meter and recording device invented by Kohei Ono in 1950. Above: Picture of the unit. Below: the recording mechanism. This instrument was built by the Ogawa Seiki Company, Ltd., of Tokyo. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Left to right: M. Malglaive of the Transatlantic Company; Dr. Louet, doctor to the Prince; and unidentified. Plate IV, print 5. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Power company sign" by Stella Reese Commentary: "A 1930s sign from the Amsterdam municipal power company." | "Royal Shakespeare Company Thea" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "I took this after attending a performance of measure for measure. several second exposure i think, supported on the bridge." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Ignorance is degrading when found in company with riches. |
Hyman Maxwell Berston | Etiquette is getting sleepy in company and not showing it. |
Izaak Walton | Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. |
Lord Chesterfield | Take the tone of the company you are in. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. |
Publilius Syrus | When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company. |
Shakespeare | Company, villainous company hath been the ruin of me. |
Sydney Smith | Live always in the best company when you read. |
William Wycherley | Women serve but to keep a man from better company. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | First, That there are no instances to be found in story, of a company of men independent, and equal one amongst another, that met together, and in this way began and set up a government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Nevertheless, the former company, if requested, shall deliver the latter company derivative copies permitting the continuation of reproduction of articles for use within German territory. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She was wanting to see him again, and especially to see him in company with Mrs. Weston, upon his behaviour to whom her opinion of him was to depend |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The Empress found the children rather sad company. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In company one day he heard an account of a criminal case that was about to be tried |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The leprous company of his sins closed about him, breathing upon him, bending over him from all sides |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A man might work and feed himself and when the work was done, might find that he owed money to the company. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | One day in much good company I was asked by a person of quality, whether I had seen any of their Struldbrugs, or Immortals |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Check with your company for details. (references) | |
You can scan the news by industry category or company name. (references) | ||
If you enjoy company while eating, try to have meals with family or friends. (references) | ||
Business | Initially the company was a satellite operator. (references) | |
Many new foreign clothing company market entries. (references) | ||
The higher the ratio, the more liquid the company. (references) | ||
Children | Kyrgyz Republic | The Ministries of Justice, Education, Culture, and Health as well as the state television and radio company and various NGO's also helped disseminate such information including by translating information into Kyrgyz, Russian, and Uzbek in order to reach those segments of the population that speak different languages. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | In the RS, the state-owned printing company, Glas Srpski, has a virtual monopoly. (references) |
Bahrain | Access to the Internet is provided through the National Telephone Company (BATELCO). (references) | |
Economic History | Honduras | Harwood Honduras Company, S. de R.L. (references) |
Brazil | No U.S. company bid on this concession. (references) | |
Bahrain | WLL is the most common form of company. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | AI has registered itself as a private company. (references) |
Nepal | In Dang District, Maoists overran an army barracks, killing the company commander and 11 other soldiers. (references) | |
Congo | On May 15, Mai Mai forces kidnaped 30 foreign forestry company workers, including 23 Thai citizens, in Mangini, North Kivu Province. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | The trial of a group of five Iban tribesmen charged with the 1999 killing in Sarawak of four Chinese workers who worked for a company that was encroaching on their land ended in September. (references) |
Colombia | The U'wa broke off talks with the Government in September 2000, in response to a ruling by the Government's agrarian reform agency authorizing the state oil company to purchase lands to create a buffer zone around the drilling area, and talks remained suspended during the year. (references) | |
Minorities | Latvia | The law requires that documents submitted to the Government be translated into Latvian, except in cases of emergency, including company reports and records. (references) |
Political Economy | SWEDEN | More detailed company agreements are reached locally. (references) |
DENMARK | In some programs, however, Denmark requires cooperation with a Danish company. (references) | |
Yemen | Most victims of kidnapping in Yemen have been either tourists or oil company workers. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kuwait | In the most serious case, the Minister of Oil was accused of being an agent for a foreign petroleum company because his wife was allegedly on the company's payroll. (references) |
Seychelles | Prior to the elections, the SNP protested to the Electoral Commissioner that a parastatal company, whose chairman is President Rene, was requiring employees to attend a government-sponsored political rally. (references) | |
Trade | Moldova | Total company capitalization is USD 2.8 million. (references) |
Travel | Turkey | Most company executives were educated in western countries. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Paging services are available through a private local company. (references) | |
Indonesia | Note: New clinic operated by an experienced Australian health care company. (references) | |
Women | China | In addition female employees are more likely to be required to take pay cuts when a plant or company is in financial trouble. (references) |
Mauritania | While not applied universally in practice, the two largest employers, the civil service and the state mining company, respected this law. (references) | |
Afghanistan | The Taliban initially excluded women from all employment outside the home, apart from the traditional work of women in agriculture; women were forbidden to leave the home except in the company of a male relative. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Burkina Faso | Every company is required to have a work safety committee. (references) |
Namibia | Almost all collective bargaining is at the workplace and company level. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | The 1999 case involving the Han Chang company was settled through mediation. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | Time to move on. I think so. That decision hasn't been made. There's a lot of possibilities. Don't have to have a host. Could go a repertory company. |
Dennis Miller | Screw-off cap for company, boxed wine for leisure. |
Ed McMahon | Sure. He reads the letters. He read the letters. Sure. He's a company man. I mean, he really works at being Johnny Carson. |
John McCain | My company officer would have predicted that I would be on probation rather than in the United States Senate, I can assure you. |
Julie Andrews | Mostly, I just got up and said that I was thrilled and honored to have been nominated, but in the light of the way I felt and in order to support my company, I felt I couldn't accept it. |
Margaret Thatcher | I enjoyed the conversation and the company of older people very much. And I enjoyed the things they were talking about, and I listened, and then gradually came to join in. |
Martha Stewart | Well, sort of exciting, and certainly rewarding, and certainly felt good that finally, you know, my company was worth what I thought it was. |
Robert Novak | As you know, a great deal of controversy over President Bush and his previous dealings with Harken Energy Company. The White House says this has all been thrashed about for years, nothing new has come out. |
Rush Limbaugh | What I do oppose is the notion that one lawsuit could wipe a company out and thereby prevent a company from ever going into business. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | A man must be indifferent to the sneers of modern English men, to mention in their company the names of Sidney, Harrington, Locke, Milton, Nedham, Neville, Burnet, and Hoadly. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The present corporate body, denominated the president, directors, and company of the Bank of the United States, will have existed at the time this act is intended to take effect twenty years. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Today, she's a dispatcher with the a van company. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Employees who have worked hard and saved all their lives should not have to risk losing everything if their company fails. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Company" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.31% of the time. "Company" is used about 40,076 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.31% | 34,989 | 238 |
| Noun (common) | 12.35% | 4,951 | 1,982 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40,076 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "company". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Kithlish | N/A | Biblical | The company of a lioness |
| Mahalah | N/A | Biblical | A company of dancers |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Arthur Yates & Company Limited | Belgium | Ford Motor Company |
| Canada | AimGlobal Technologies Company Inc. | Chile | Telecommunications Company of Chile |
| China | Anhui Expressway Company Limited | Denmark | Ford Motor Company A/S |
| Egypt | Al-ahram beverages Company S.A. | Finland | A Company Finland Oyj |
| France | HF Company | Germany | Eurag Holding AG, a consolidated member of the Deere & Company group |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "company": "one man" company ♦ "structured" company ♦ A.Brunnschweiler & Company ♦ advertising company ♦ affiliated company ♦ air company ♦ airline company ♦ airway company ♦ allied company ♦ appear as a visiting company ♦ assets of the company ♦ associated company ♦ assuming company ♦ assurance company ♦ auto company ♦ bail out a company ♦ ballet company ♦ bank holding company ♦ banking company ♦ be a bad company ♦ be a good company ♦ be in company ♦ bear a person company ♦ bear company to smb. ♦ bogus company ♦ broadcasting company ♦ brokerage company ♦ bubble company ♦ bus company ♦ captive finance company ♦ car company ♦ carriage company ♦ ceding company ♦ central company council ♦ charter company ♦ chartered company ♦ city company ♦ close company ♦ closely held company ♦ commercial credit company ♦ commercial finance company ♦ commissioned company ♦ company area ♦ company capital ♦ company car ♦ company checkers ♦ company clerk ♦ company commander ♦ company crèche ♦ company debts ♦ company director ♦ company doctor ♦ company for the sale of wines and spirits ♦ company halt! ♦ company headquarters ♦ company law ♦ company lawyer ♦ company loyalty ♦ company man ♦ company name ♦ company of dinner guests ♦ company office ♦ company on a journey ♦ company operator ♦ company organisation survey ♦ company organization survey ♦ company outing ♦ company policy ♦ company profile ♦ company profits ♦ company register ♦ company skip list ♦ company sponsored ♦ company spotters ♦ company spotters checkers ♦ company taxation ♦ company town ♦ company union ♦ company with limited liability ♦ company with share capital ♦ consulting company ♦ consumer finance company ♦ controlling company ♦ daughter company ♦ developing company ♦ diversified company ♦ drug company ♦ electric company ♦ electricity company ♦ electronics company ♦ engineering company ♦ express company ♦ factoring company ♦ film company ♦ finance company ♦ financial holding company ♦ fire company ♦ Flank company ♦ food company ♦ Foot company ♦ foreign company. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "company": company-approved, company-based, company-by-company, company-car, company-centred, company-clients, company-fascinated, company-funded, company-government, company-headed, Company-law, company-level, company-loving, company-oriented, company-owned, company-patient, company-provided, company-reporting, company-specific, company-sponsored, company-subsidised, company-suggested, company-type, company-wide. | |
Ending with "company": ex-company, in-company, inter-company, oil-company. | |
Containing "company": kowabunga-mutant-ninja-turtle-most-unfortunately-named-clothing-company-of-the-century. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ford motor company | 6,542 | company research | 1,236 |
safari company | 6,154 | publishing company | 1,227 |
phone company | 4,269 | company new york | 1,054 |
moving company | 3,836 | telecommunication company | 1,014 |
insurance company | 3,276 | tractor supply company | 900 |
company | 3,136 | exhibit company | 899 |
mortgage company | 3,020 | production company | 886 |
bombay company | 2,998 | lowes company inc | 861 |
start a company | 2,724 | web hosting company | 829 |
oriental trading company | 2,692 | three company | 818 |
company web site hosting | 2,235 | bad company | 807 |
pharmaceutical company | 2,180 | record company | 797 |
mailing list company | 2,074 | cellular phone company | 788 |
trucking company | 1,894 | company logo | 752 |
software company | 1,776 | shipping company | 744 |
investment company | 1,692 | freight company | 736 |
cell phone company | 1,504 | walt disney company | 732 |
rental car company | 1,459 | health insurance company | 728 |
real estate company | 1,336 | limited liability company | 724 |
the company store | 1,278 | gas company | 714 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "company"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | firma (firm). (various references) | |
Albanian | vizitorë, shoqëri (association, companionship, comradeship, consortium, crowd, entourage, fellowship, gang, guild, life, society, tendance, world), miq (connection, connexion, kith), kompani (firm), firmë (author, firm, house, signature), ekuipazh (crew). (various references) | |
Arabic | عشراء, شركاتي, شركة (association, corporation, firm), شركي, رافق (accompany, bring, bully, carry, chaperon, companion, escort, follow, join, pursue, see, see off, string, string along with, take, take along, take out), رفاق, السرية (concubine), شركاء (partners), ضيوف, فرقة فنية, زائرون, سرية (darkness, hugger mugger, mystery, privacy, secrecy, stealthiness, wrap), سرية في الجيش (brigade, detachment), مجالس, مجموعة (aggregate, aggregation, assemblage, association, band, battery, bloc, block, body, case, collection, combination, community, compilation, complex, gathering, group, list, pack, party, series, set, squad, suit, system, team, troop), ملاحو السفينة (crew), فرقة مطافئ, جماعة (association, band, body, clan, cluster, cohort, connection, connexion, corporation, drove, gaggle, gang, group, horde, order, troupe). (various references) | |
Asturian | compañía. (various references) | |
Bemba | akapani. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | събеседник (collocutor, interlocutor), рота, трупа (ensemble, skat), компания (bunch, circle, companionship, crowd, lot, party, push, set, society, tribe, troop), гости (do, party), общество (community, life, public, society, sodality, world), приятели, познанство (acquaintance, acquaintanceship, connection), дружество (association, fellowship, organization, society). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kompanya. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kompania. (various references) | |
Chinese | 公司 (corporation, firm, incorporated). (various references) | |
Czech | společnost, spoleènost (association, community, companionship, corporation, incorporation, league, partnership, party, set, society, world), soubor (body, complex, ensemble, file, package, set, suite, syllabus), skupina (band, batch, block, body, bracket, clump, gathering, group, head, order, party, section, team, unit), rota (platoon), podnik (business, concern, enterprise, establishment, factory, firing, gala, joint, office, operation), firma (business, enterprise, establishment, firing, firm, house, sign), ansámbl (ensemble). (various references) | |
Danish | firma (firm), selskab (academy, circle, club, society). (various references) | |
Dutch | firma (firm), vennootschap, handelshuis (firm), handelsfirma (firm), compagnie (gang, squad). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nepublika kompanio (limited liability), kunularo, kompanio, firmo (firm), firmao (firm). (various references) | |
Faeroese | handilshús (firm), felag (academy, association, circle, club, connection, league, society). (various references) | |
Farsi | مصاحبت کردن با, هیلت بازیگران , همراه کسی رفتن , گروهان , گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Society, Throng), انجمن (Assemblage, Assembly, Club, Community, Congress, Convention, Convocation, Council, Group, Guild, Institute, Moot, Order, Society). (various references) | |
Finnish | yritys (attempt, effort, endeavour, enterprise, trial, undertaking), yhtiö (corporation), seurue (entourage, party, suite), seura (academy, assembly, circle, club, party, society), lippukunta, liikeyritys (business enterprise), komppania, kauppayhtiö (firm). (various references) | |
French | compagnie (Comp., corporation), société, maison de commerce (commercial firm), entreprise. (various references) | |
Frisian | selskip, fennoatskip (academy, circle, club, society). (various references) | |
German | Gesellschaft (academy, assn, association, bunch, circle, club, companionship, corporation, crowd, fellowship, function, group of people, guests, house party, limited partnership, line, pack, party, reception, society), Firma (business, concern, corporation, employer, firm, inc), Unternehmen (attempt, business, concern, do, effort, enterprise, establishment, make, operation, organization, project, undertake, undertaken, undertaking, venture), kompanie (firm, regiment), Besuch (attendance, call, visit, visitation, visitor). (various references) | |
Greek | παρέα (companionship, party), εταιρεία (corporation, firm). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חברה (folk, society, sodality). (various references) | |
Hungarian | század (centennial, century, co., coy), vállalat (business, business concern, business house, business undertaking, Co, corporation, enterprise, express agency, house, officers of a society, show, undertaking), társulat (association, brotherhood, sodality), társaság (band, bunch, circle, co., companionship, consort, fellowship, firm, nest, number, partnership, party, society, tribe), színtársulat (acting company, theatrical company, troupe), legénység (crew, crew of the lower deck, men, rank and file, ranks, team), hajólegénység, csoport (band, bank, battery, bunch, clump, cluster, colony, covey, faction, gang, group, knot, number, platoon, posse, rating, team, troop, wing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perusahaan (enterprise), pendamping (associate, colleague), maskapai (enterprise), firma (enterprise, firm). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | piqutiqaqti. (various references) | |
Italian | compagnia (academy, bevy, circle, club, companionship, corporation, crowd, fellowship, gang, gathering, group, lot, party, society, squad), società (association, club, corporation, partnership, society, trust), impresa (achievement, boutique, business, concern, deed, enterprise, establishment, expedition, exploit, feat, firm, job, shop, trade, undertaking, venture). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同伴 (accompany, going with), 一緒 (meeting, together). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つれ (companion), とはい (companions, fellows, set), カンパニー , コンパ (a party, a social), あいて (addressee, companion, other party, partner), れん (group, party), れんちゅう (a lot, colleagues), れんじゅう (a lot, colleagues), こうし (calf, Confucius, Crown Prince, edict, exercise, filial child, firm, government and people, heir, hind leg, Imperial Heir, kind intention, kind thought, lattice, lecturer, man of noble character, minister, national examinations, official and personal, pearly white teeth, photon, public and private, public announcement, reform, renewal, slag, successor, use, young nobleman), こうさい (acquaintance, association, brilliance, clever speech, friendship, High Court, iris, judicial decision, public bond or securities, public debt, slag, society, splendour), だん (body, failure, flight of steps, grade, group, level, mandala, party, platform, podium, rank, rostrum, stair, step, troupe), かいしゃ (corporation, household word, universal praise), たい (against, another intention, band, be crowned with, body, complying with, corps, double-mindedness, fickleness, form, ill will, image counter, keeping in mind, malice, obedience, object, opposition, party, ratio, reality, receive, schnapper, sea bream, secret purpose, snapper, style, substance, the body, ulterior motive, versus), どうはん (accompany, going with, the same clan), どうれつ (attendance, same rank or file), どうぜい (party), ひとまえ (the public), ひとなか (society, the public, the world), しょうかい (detailed explanation, firm, inquiry, introduction, patrolling, reference), きゃくじん (caller, guest, visitor), きしゃ (almsgiving, equestrian archery, reporter, return to office, shooting on horseback, train), なかま (associate, circle of friends, colleague, comrade, fellow, group, mate, partner), いっしょ (a book, a letter, lost book, meeting, one place, the same place, together). (various references) | |
Korean | 회사 (Companies). (various references) | |
Macedonian | kompanija. (various references) | |
Malay | firma (firm). (various references) | |
Manx | skimmee (cast, crew, gang, hands, ship's company), sheshaght (association, band of people, society). (various references) | |
Papiamen | firma (firm, sign, signature). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ompanycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | companhia (association, companionship, corporation, crowd, fellowship, firm, gang, pension, squad, troop, troupe). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | companhia. (various references) | |
Provencal | entrepresa. (various references) | |
Romanian | companie (companionship, crowd, group, partnership, presence, society), vizite, vizitatori (patronage), trupã (troop), tovãrãşie (cahoot, companionship, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, partnership, society), societate (association, circle, club, community, companionship, Covey, crowd, firm, guild, institute, presence, society, world), musafiri, echipaj de vas, asociaţie (association, foundation, guild, junction, organization, society, union), asistenţã (aid, assistance, attendance, audience, help, promotion, relief), anturaj (entourage, environment), antreprizã (contract, enterprise, scheme), agenţie (agency), întreprindere (concern, enterprise, factory, industry, undertaking). (various references) | |
Russian | экипаж (cab, carriage, crew, equipage, hands, rig, team), собеседник (collocutor, interlocutor), рота (Coy Company), труппа (troupe), товарищество (camaraderie, comradeship, copartnership, fellowship, partnership), команда (command, crew, detail, instruction, operation, squad, squady, team), компания (bunch, companionship, crowd, fellowship, gang, horde, party, steelmaker), гости, общество (assembly, assn association, association, drawing room, fellowship, institute, societies, society). (various references) | |
Samoan | kamupani. (various references) | |
Scottish | cuideachd (also, company; likewise, likewise, too). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kompanija, društvo (association, bevy, brotherhood, club, set, society). (various references) | |
Spanish | compañía (attendance, circle of friends, companionship, Ingathering, junta, society, troop, troupe), firma (endorsement, firm, house, indorsation, indorsement, sign manual, signature, signing), sociedad (assn, association, community, companyof, corporation, firm, league, partnership, society), empresa (business, car dealership, concern, employer, employment, enterprise, firm, gamble, industry, proposition, task, undertaking, venture). (various references) | |
Swedish | firma (concern, firm, house), företag (business, companies, concern, corporation, enterprise, enterprises, firms, operation, outfit, undertaking, venture), sällskap (assembly, association, college, crowd, lot, partner, party, society), lag (act, code, enactment, gang, law, liquor, party, set, side, solution, statute, syrup, team), kompani, bolag (companies, copartnership, corporation). (various references) | |
Turkish | topluluk (army, cohort, colony, community, corps, coterie, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, hive, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), toplantı (assemblage, assembly, concourse, conference, congress, convention, convocation, court, forum, function, gathering, get together, meeting, parley, powwow, rally, séance, session), tayfa (crew, deck hand, seaman recruit, swab), ortaklık (association, community, coparcenary, copartnership, joint adventure, joint undertaking, joint venture, participation, partnership, privity, tie up), misafir (caller, guest, lodger, sojourner, visitor), eşlik (accompaniment, attendance, companionship, convoy, equality, waiting), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, confederacy, confederation, conference, contingent, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, unanimity, union, unit, unity), bölük (maniple, squad, troop), şirket (concern, corporation, establishment, firm, house), arkadaşlık (amity, association, camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, fellowship, friendliness, friendship, good fellowship). (various references) | |
Turkmen | rota (r), kampaniяa. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | супроводити (accompany, be, companion, conduct, convoy, follow, go with), спілкуватися (associate, commune, communicate, consort, converse, intercommunicate, intermingle, mate, mingle, socialize), товариство (army, association, camaraderie, drawing room, fellowship, institution, order, partnership, society, world), компанія (bevy, clan, crowd, outfit, party, room), об'єднання (alliance, amalgamation, association, coalescence, combine, conjuncture, consolidation, corporation, embodiment, family, incorporation, integration, merger, organization, rally, unification). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | công ty đoàn, toán (band, gang, mathematical), sự có bầu có bạn khách, sự cùng ở, sự cùng đi, khách khứa bạn, bè bạn hội. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyweithas (gentle, kind, sociable, society), cwmpeini, cwmni (firm). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | catervam, centurio, centurione, centuriones, centurionesque, centurioni, centurionibus, centurionis, circuli, circulis, circulo, circulos, circulum, circulus, coetu, coetum, coetus, coetuum, coitus, concorporales, consortio, vexillum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | heap. (various references) |
| Old High German | 500-1100 | hansa. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | compaignie, trope. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | troupe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 15, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | WV ean poreuwmai eiV thn spanian eleusomai proV umaV elpizw gar diaporeuomenoV qeasasqai umaV kai uf umwn propemfqhnai ekei ean umwn prwton apo merouV emplhsqw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum in Hispaniam proficisci coepero spero quod praeteriens videam vos et a vobis deducar illuc si vobis primum ex parte fruitus fuero |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Will ic be eow neosian þonne ic to Hispanien siðe. Ic tohopie be eow to neosienne þonne ic siðe heonan and þæt ge fultumað me on minum fære heonan æfter þæt ic hwile bruce eow geferscipe. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whanne Y bygynne to passe in to Spayne, Y hope that in my goyng Y schal se you, and of you Y schal be led thidur, if Y vse you first in parti. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When I shall take my iorney into spayne I will come to you. I trust to se you in my iorney and to be brought on my waye thither warde by you after that I have somwhat enioyed you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Whenever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I shall be somewhat filled with your company. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)-- |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 15, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | malaumon ako sa pagpakigkita kaninyo inig-agi ko diha paingon sa Espana, ug aron ikahatud ako ninyo sa akong paggikan paingon didto sa diha nga masinati ko na ang kalipay sa pagpakig-uban kaninyo sa makadiyot. |
| Croatian | kad poðem u Španjolsku. Nadam se doista da æu vas na proputovanju posjetiti i da æete me onamo otpraviti pošto mi se najprije bar donekle ispuni želja biti s vama. |
| Danish | vil jeg, når jeg rejser til Spanien, komme til eder; thi jeg håber at se eder på Gennemrejsen og af eder at blive befordret derhen, når jeg først i nogen Måde er bleven tilfredsstillet hos eder. |
| Dutch | Zo zal ik, wanneer ik naar Spanje reis, tot u komen; want ik hoop in het doorreizen u te zien, en van u derwaarts geleid te worden, als ik eerst van ulieder tegenwoordigheid eensdeels verzadigd zal zijn. |
| Finnish | niin minä, jos milloin Hispaniaan matkustan, tulen luoksenne, sillä minä toivon sieltä kautta matkustaessani näkeväni teidät ja teidän avullanne pääseväni sinne, kunhan ensin olen vähän saanut iloita teidän seurastanne. |
| French | j`espère vous voir en passant, quand je me rendrai en Espagne, et y être accompagné par vous, après que j`aurai satisfait en partie mon désir de me trouver chez vous. |
| German | so will ich zu euch kommen, wenn ich reisen werde nach Spanien. Denn ich hoffe, daß ich da durchreisen und euch sehen werde und von euch dorthin geleitet werden möge, so doch, daß ich zuvor mich ein wenig an euch ergötze. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen ta renmen fè sa lè mapral an Espay lan. Wi, mwen gen espwa pase wè nou pou nou kapab ede m' ale nan peyi sa a, apre m'a fin pase kèk bon moman nan mitan nou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Nanti kalau saya lewat kotamu dalam perjalanan saya ke Spanyol, saya harap dapat bertemu dengan kalian dan bergembira sebentar dengan kalian. Sesudah itu saya harap kalian dapat membantu saya untuk perjalanan saya ke Spanyol itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | apabila aku berangkat ke negeri Ispanyol, maka aku harap, di dalam perjalananku, singgah kepadamu dan kamulah mengantar aku ke sana, sesudah dapat aku dahulu memuaskan hatiku di dalam sedikit hal dengan kamu. |
| Latvian | Kad sâkðu ceïojumu uz Spâniju, es ceru garâmejot jûs redzçt, lai jûs mani pavadîtu uz turieni, kad iepriekð daudzmaz bûðu iepazinies ar jums. |
| Maori | Ina tupono taku haere ki Hipania; e tumanako ana hoki ahau kia kite i a koutou i taua haerenga oku, a kia kawea peratia atu ahau e koutou, ina ano ia kia matua rite tetahi wahi o toku ngakau i te kitenga i a koutou; |
| Norwegian | håper jeg å få se eder på gjennemreisen når jeg drar til Spania, og få følge av eder dit når jeg først i nogen mon har hatt godt av eder. |
| Rumanian | nqdqjduiesc sq vq vqd kn treacqt, cknd mq voi duce kn Spania, wi sq fiu knsoyit de voi pknq acolo, dupq ce kmi voi kmplini, mqcar kn parte, dorinya de a fi stat la voi. |
| Shuar | Ispania nukanam wéakun iistatjarme. Tura Atumíin shiir irasan Ispanianam wéakui atumsha yaintkiarum shiir akuptukchattarpash. |
| Spanish | lo haré cuando viaje para España. Porque espero veros al pasar y ser encaminado por vosotros allá, una vez que en algo me haya gozado con vosotros. |
| Swahili | natumaini kufanya hivyo sasa. Ningependa kuwaoneni nikiwa safarini kwenda Spania na kupata msaada wenu kwa safari hiyo baada ya kufurahia kuwa kwa muda pamoja nanyi. |
| Swedish | vill jag besöka eder, när jag begiver mig till Spanien. Jag hoppas nämligen att på genomresan få se eder och att därefter av eder bliva utrustad för färden dit, sedan jag först i någon mån har fått min längtan efter eder stillad. |
| Uma | kusarumaka ria-mi mpai' loga-ku mehani hi ngata-ni pai' mpohirua' -kokoi ompi'. Apa' ane hilou-a mpai' hi tana' Spanyol, bate liu hi ngata Roma-a. Jadi', ka'oti-ku mpai' goe' -goe' dohe-ni hampai', kusarumaka nipope'ongko' lompe' -a kaliliu hilou hi Spanyol. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "company": companying. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "company": accompany, intercompany, intracompany. (additional references) | |
Words containing "company": accompanying. (additional references) | |
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"Company" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boonpanya, Campagnie, Campan, Campanie, Campano, Choupana, Comani, comnpany, Compagnia, compagny, compan, compand, compani, Companie, companys, companyw, Compay, compen, compent, compny, compon, copay, Cormani, Komanya, pomganny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "company" (pronounced ku"mpunē) |
| 7 | k u" m p u n ē | accompany, intercompany. |
| 5 | -m p u n ē | intracompany. |
| 3 | -u n ē | aborigine, agony, balcony, botany, cacophony, colony, destiny, disharmony, larceny, ebony, Epiphany, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, irony, litany, mahogany, misogyny, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, ontogeny, paleobotany, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, polyphony, progeny, Saxony, scrutiny, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-m-n-o-p-y" | |
-1 letter: canopy. | |
-2 letters: anomy, campo, campy, capon, cyano, macon, yapon. | |
-3 letters: camp, capo, coma, comp, cony, copy, cyan, cyma, mano, many, mayo, moan, mony, mopy, myna, noma, pony. | |
-4 letters: amp, any, cam, can, cap, cay, con, cop, coy, mac, man, map, may, moa, moc, mon, mop, nam, nap, nay, nom, oca, pac, pam, pan, pay. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-m-n-o-p-y" | |
+2 letters: accompany, copayment, cymophane, hypomanic, pyromancy. | |
+3 letters: companying, compliancy, copayments, cymophanes, importancy, patronymic, pyromaniac. | |
+4 letters: amphictyony, amylopectin, campanology, complacency, compliantly, paramountcy, patronymics, pyromancies, pyromaniacs, toponymical. | |
+5 letters: accompanying, actinomorphy, amphictyonic, amylopectins, appendectomy, companionway, compensatory, complacently, contemporary, incomparably, incompatibly, incomputably, intercompany, intracompany, monosynaptic, nymphomaniac, pancreozymin, phonemically, photodynamic, pinealectomy, predominancy, pyromaniacal, sycophantism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Derived from | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Abbreviations 24. Acronyms | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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