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📖 Определения и значения для слова company

📒 a business organization that makes money by producing or selling goods or services

  • insurance/oil/tech/technology/pharmaceutical companies
  • It is the world's largest software company.
  • He works for the National Bus Company.

📒 a group of people who work or perform together

  • a theatre/dance, etc. company
  • the Royal Shakespeare Company
  • a small touring opera company

📒 the fact of being with somebody else and not alone

  • somebody's company I enjoy Jo's company (= I enjoy being with her).
  • in the company of somebody a pleasant evening in the company of friends
  • She enjoys her own company (= being by herself) when she is travelling.

📒 guests in your house

  • I didn't realize you had company.
  • We're expecting company this afternoon.
  • The dining room was only used when they had company.

📒 a group of people together

  • She told the assembled company what had happened.
  • in company It is bad manners to whisper in company (= in a group of people).
  • Those children don't know how to behave in company.

📒 a group of soldiers that is part of a battalion

📒 the people that somebody spends time with

  • Judging by the company he kept, Mark must have been a wealthy man.
  • John's mother was worried about the company he kept.

📒 to be friends with people that others think are bad

  • They worried about their teenage son getting into bad company.
  • He got into bad company and got involved in drugs.

📒 together with or at the same time as somebody/something

  • She arrived in company with the ship's captain.
  • The US dollar went through a difficult time, in company with the oil market.

📒 if you say that somebody is in good company, you mean that they should not worry about a mistake, etc. because somebody else, especially somebody more important, has done the same thing

  • If you worry about your relationship with your teenage son or daughter, you are in good company. Many parents share these worries.

📒 to stay with somebody so that they are not alone

  • I'll keep you company while you're waiting.
  • I'll stay and keep you company.

📒 to leave somebody; to end a relationship with somebody

  • This is where we part company (= go in different directions).
  • The band have parted company with their manager.
  • The band and their manager have parted company.

📒 to disagree with somebody about something

  • Weber parted company with Marx on a number of important issues.
  • The two leaders parted ways on this question.

📒 used after being rude or critical about somebody to say that the people you are talking to are not included in the criticism

  • The people in this office are so narrow-minded, present company excepted, of course.

📒 used to suggest that it is better to be in a group of only two people than have a third person with you as well

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