• (RP) IPA: /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈkʌmpəni/

company

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
   1. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

      A company of actors.

   2. (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

   3. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

      It took six companies to put out the fire.

   4. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
   5. (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.

      As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.

2. A small group of birds or animals.
3. (legal) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
4. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
5. (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.

   Keep the house clean; I have company coming.

6. (uncountable) Companionship.

   I treasure your company.

• (in legal context, a corporation) corporation
• (group of individuals with a common purpose) association, companionship, fellowship, organization, society
• (companionship) fellowship, friendship, mateship

• accompany
• companion
• discompany

• French: société, entreprise, firme, compagnie
• German: Gesellschaft, Firma, Unternehmen
• Italian: azienda, impresa, compagnia
• Portuguese: companhia
• Russian: компа́ния
• Spanish: empresa

• Portuguese: companhia, empresa
• Russian: компа́ния

• French: compagnie
• German: Gesellschaft
• Portuguese: companhia
• Russian: компа́ния
• Spanish: compañía

• French: compagnie
• Portuguese: visita
• Russian: компа́ния

• French: compagnie
• German: Gesellschaft
• Portuguese: companhia
• Russian: компа́ния
• Spanish: compañía

• German: Kompanie
• Italian: compagnia
• Portuguese: companhia
• Russian: ро́та
• Spanish: compañía

company (companies, present participle companying; past companied, past participle companied)

1. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 1:21 ↗:

     Men which have companied with us all the time.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

• (to accompany) attend, escort, go with
• (to have sexual intercourse) fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate