(n.) The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
(n.) A companion or companions.
(n.) An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.
(n.) Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
(n.) Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
(n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
(n.) Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
(n.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
(n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
(n.) The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
(v. t.) To accompany or go with; to be companion to.
(v. i.) To associate.
(v. i.) To be a gay companion.
(v. i.) To have sexual commerce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(5) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(6) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(7) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(8) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(9) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(10) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(11) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(12) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(13) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(14) We need you, so keep us company for a while longer.
(15) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
(16) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(17) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(18) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(19) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
(20) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
Comradeship
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to thank my colleagues all for their support and comradeship, along with all those others that I have served with in 37 years as an officer.” Speaking in April, he described Acpo’s relationship with the current government as “robust”.
(2) By 1960, she had reached her third, Doctor In Love, followed by Doctor In Clover, both with Leslie Phillips, a more refined leading man than the bucolic Sid James, but the Doctor films satisfied her less than the Carry Ons, which she said gave her a unique comradeship and fun during shooting.
(3) I have never felt much professional comradeship with people hired to promote the self-serving views of a few eccentric far-right billionaires controlling large parts of the British press.
(4) They had been sustained and inspired by their feeling of comradeship, and their sense of responsibility for their fellow man and woman.
(5) But despite this apparent comradeship, Michel is not above threatening Smith.
(6) Unlike the glorious sports of basketball, American football and baseball, she says, all individual talent is subsumed into the back-patting, winning-isn't-everything comradeship of football.
(7) The banter, the comradeship, everything about the show.
(8) But he said that the practice, known as "the magic roundabout", was an exercise in comradeship.
(9) You could find the same thing in Homer.” Soldiering is timeless and Motion’s response treads across scarred ground: the futility of war; the majesty of the battlefield; the preciousness of everyday life; the relief of taking a swim after combat in temperatures of 95F in full body armour; the urge to bear witness; and the eternal solace of comradeship.
(10) They will also test the truth of the comparisons made on the president’s website : “Due to his [Kiir’s] close comradeship with the late Dr Garang, he is perceived as the embodiment and assurance of the future of the peace agreement spearheaded by the fallen hero.
(11) In conclusion, sport for the handicapped should achieve the following: give pleasure of life, increase courage, promote comradeship, reinforce self-confidence, improve independence, and take away inhibitions and inferiority complexes.
(12) Although, in 1969, one black lieutenant commented somewhat cynically that the "threat of death changes many things, but comradeship doesn't last after you get back to the village", the disparity in inter-racial hatred at the rear army bases and in the war theatre itself was immense.
(13) The mix of adventure and rebellion, victory and comradeship was intoxicating.
(14) A sense of comradeship exists within such groups and troop morale is frequently facilitated by their existence.
(15) The sense of people going on an adventure, working together, doing something nobody’s done before, with a sense of comradeship and working together – that spirit doesn’t exist now.
(16) The comradeship between former chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Vladimir Putin during the latter's first stint as president wasn't welcomed by everyone.
(17) Her son had liked the routine and comradeship of the army.
(18) So, in a spirit of comradeship and unity, I call on the CLPD to withdraw their conference motion on this.
(19) Or how much human comradeship survived long into the war, regardless of nationality: Harry was always careful to shoot his enemy in the legs "and no higher" unless he thought his life was in danger.
(20) One opponent, the late Gen Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, writing on the BBC website, repeated that gay people could undermine comradeship and added that two surveys had shown the overwhelming majority of those in military service found homosexuality “abhorrent ”.