(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.
Distillery
Definition:
(n.) The building and works where distilling, esp. of alcoholic liquors, is carried on.
(n.) The act of distilling spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) They detail the history of the distillery and reveal (bar a few trade secrets of course) how Talisker is made.
(2) The distillery sold more than one million cases of Glenfiddich, but Trump continued: "Glenfiddich should be ashamed of themselves for granting this award to Forbes, just for the sake of publicity.
(3) Both the Arran Malt independent distillery and the Arran Brewery run tours.
(4) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
(5) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
(6) Gin sales in the UK are expected to top £1bn for the first time this year as younger drinkers supplement their taste for vodka with a double shot from a new generation of artisanal distilleries.
(7) The British gin industry had a record-breaking year in 2015 after 49 new distilleries opened their doors and and consumers spent nearly £1bn on their favourite tipple.
(8) The windfarm was opposed by the Cairngorms National Park Authority and a coalition of local businesses, including two whisky distilleries, William Grant & Sons and Glenfarclas , as well as Walkers , the shortbread makers.
(9) In 2010, there were only 116 distilleries in the UK, according to HM Revenue & Customs, but about 100 have opened in the past two years alone.
(10) Its successful sale by then owner John Teeling has prompted renewed interest and venture capitalist investment in new small distilleries across the Republic.
(11) In a bucolic corner of the County Kerry coastline, pub chain owner Oliver Hughes has opened one of a few independent whiskey distilleries in Ireland.
(12) It is also opening a whisky and vodka distillery on the same site, and building a major new production facility in the US – its biggest export market, where Watt and Dickie are the stars of an extreme-brewing reality show called Brew Dogs, which follows the pair around America as they visit craft breweries and make beer using outlandish ingredients ranging from a lobster to the world’s hottest chilli.
(13) In a famously delicious irony, they include Moore County, Tennessee, the home of the Jack Daniel's distillery, although visitors are allowed to buy a "commemorative" bottle.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Old Jameson whiskey distillery.
(15) The supplementary diet which consisted largely of a distillery by-product, malt culms, was submitted for mycological examination and fed to two housed lambs.
(16) It also produces upmarket gin and vodka at a distillery opened in 2010 to tap people willing to pay more for distinctive spirits.
(17) Among workers in the tar distillery the rate for lung cancer was higher than expected.
(18) On top of the whiskey, the Dingle Distillery is already producing its own branded vodka and gin.
(19) An American friend has already sent me a few suggestions regarding the places I might visit, including whiskey distilleries , Lower Broadway in Nashville , Graceland , the John Dillinger museum , the home of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat , demolition derbies , some other things.
(20) The vector, Culex quinquefasciatus (Say), breeds mostly in and around numerous rum distilleries, located exclusively around the periphery of the city, and this undoubtedly accounts for the higher prevalence and intensity of infection among suburban dwellers.