What's the difference between company and deacon?

Company


Definition:

  • (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.

Deacon


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.
  • (n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.
  • (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two fish ponds, bakery and chicken farm that used to be the pride and joy of its chief deacon, Barrisa Tete Dooh, lie abandoned, covered in a thick black layer.
  • (2) It means the church has adopted a position which maintains a traditional view of marriage between a man and woman, but allows individual congregations to “opt out” if they wish to appoint a minister or a deacon in a same-sex civil partnership.
  • (3) The Church of Scotland has voted in favour of allowing people in same-sex civil partnerships to be called as ministers and deacons.
  • (4) That’s where we as a country were 50 years ago, as civil rights organizers prepared to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to honor the recently slain church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson and all the other nonviolent activists shot and killed by police and white vigilantes.
  • (5) After the concert, which also included performances from Immortal Technique, Das Racist and Dan Deacon, thousands of protesters marched south down Broadway, closed to traffic by the police, to the financial district.
  • (6) The first comprised 70 white and 365 black adult smokers seen at the Deaconness Family Medicine Center located in Buffalo, NY.
  • (7) It turns out that they were all previously at Deacon's.
  • (8) Clement is Vladislav, an 862-year-old ladykiller, Waititi is Viago, a 379-year-old people-pleaser, and they’re joined by Petyr (Ben Fransham), an 8,000-year-old Nosferatu-like misanthropist and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), an ex-Nazi vampire who, at just 183 years of age, is a bit gauche.
  • (9) Jonathan Deacon, a business expert at University of Wales said the collapse of Peacocks could be hugely damaging to the country.
  • (10) A report from the Theological Forum, ordered by last year’s assembly, concluded there were not “sufficient theological grounds to deny nominated individual ministers and deacons the authority to preside at same-sex marriages”.
  • (11) Thomas Deacon Academy, for example, has been formed from three schools, one of which - Deacon's - was highly desirable, while the others were less successful.
  • (12) As well as the many works by artists few people have heard of, there will be works by higher profile names, with the sculptor Cornelia Parker, curating a room based on the theme of black and white, inviting contributions from Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Mona Hatoum, David Shrigley, Christian Marclay and last year's Turner Prize winner, Laure Prouvost.
  • (13) Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) Osborne: being an MP in Cheshire "opened my eyes" to the north.
  • (14) Some 50 per cent of the pupils came from Deacon's and inevitably their dominance has affected the atmosphere.
  • (15) Her first show, Objects and Sculpture (1981), included work by Bill Woodrow, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley.
  • (16) With Queen (Brian May – guitar, John Deacon – bass, Roger Taylor – drums) he's had four years to survey the scene and build up the frenzied grassroots following which left him impervious to the lack of affection in other quarters.
  • (17) To investigate the cardiac muscle damage observed in pheochromocytoma, New England Deaconness Hospital rats were implanted subcutaneously with a transplantable pheochromocytoma.
  • (18) She became a deacon at St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, and has also served at St Aldate's Church, Oxford, and in the Old Ford parishes in London.
  • (19) He joined a local Presbyterian church, where Kelley became a deacon and their children played instruments at church events.
  • (20) Their driver, a cleric with the rank of deacon, was shot and killed in the attack.