Definitions for companies

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companies com·pa·ny

Spelling: [kuhm-puh-nee]

IPA: /ˈkʌm pə ni/

Companies is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 744 anagrams from letters in companies (aceimnops).

Definitions for companies

noun

1. a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
2. a guest or guests:
3. an assemblage of persons for social purposes.
4. companionship; fellowship; association:
5. one's usual companions:
6. society collectively.
7. a number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, especially for business:
8. (initial capital letter) the members of a firm not specifically named in the firm's title:
9. Military. the smallest body of troops, consisting of a headquarters and two or three platoons. any relatively small group of soldiers. Army. a basic unit with both tactical and administrative functions.
10. a unit of firefighters, including their special apparatus:
11. Also called ship's company. a ship's crew, including the officers.
12. a medieval trade guild.
13. the Company, Informal. a nation's major intelligence-gathering and espionage organization, as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Idioms

1. keep company, to associate with; be a friend of. Informal. to go together, as in courtship:
2. part company, to cease association or friendship with: to take a different or opposite view; differ: to separate:

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to accompany.

verb (used without object)

1. Archaic. to associate.

Origin of companies

1200-50; Middle English Anglo-French; Old French compaignie companionship, equivalent to compain (Late Latin compāniō; see companion¹) + -ie Examples for companies

“The cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment was not just an attack against a company and its employees,” he said.

"Be seated, Caleb," said Mr Clayton, as we entered the room in company.

Left Alexander Spring, in company with Windich, to look for water ahead.

"I shall be very glad to have your company, Robert," said Hester.

So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.

The company smiled, and the philosopher answered, "I am Plato."

This to the same tune, till every hand had been shaken by every one of the company.

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

Through his company, consumers will be able to cheaply make custom DNA strands, including what Heinz calls “creatures.”

“How we do business is just as important as the business we do,” the company recently said in a press release.