(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.
Fishery
Definition:
(n.) The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.
(n.) A place for catching fish.
(n.) The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(2) This is uninhabited, except for scientists, is surrounded by rich fisheries and is the subject of a longstanding dispute.
(3) South Korean media said the fisheries ministry had come under fire from other ministries for announcing the plans without consulting them.
(4) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(5) Bertie Armstrong, the SFF chief executive, said the industry believed that quitting the EU and the common fisheries policy would bring “real and positive opportunities” for fishing communities , the largest of which are in the Scottish National party’s heartlands of north-east Scotland.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest For now, Morrissey has yet to respond to a statement from fisheries minister Gail Shea, who described the singer as " brainwashed by decades of propaganda ".
(7) Swathilekshmi, P. S. & Johnson, B. Migrant labourers in the primary sector of marine fisheries: A case study in Karnataka.
(8) Richard Benyon, UK fisheries minister, said: "This package of reforms fulfils our promise to make discards a thing of the past and ensure sustainable fishing for future generations.
(9) For services to Fisheries Management and Angling in North East Scotland.
(10) Potential in the Antipodes for production of unique and abundant fishery products is immense for both local and export markets.
(11) Then they got out of the oil business, buying supermarkets in the Caribbean, and later concentrating on a fishery subsidiary called Omega Protein.
(12) Lead researcher Denise Risch, from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration north-east fisheries science centre in Massachusetts, told the BBC : "Over the years there have been several suggestions, but no one was able to really show this species was producing the sound until now."
(13) There are giant fisheries and lanes for half of all commercial shipping.
(14) Some preliminary results from this database are presented and the importance of such information to the development of coastal reef fisheries is discussed.
(15) In 2009, the US Department of Commerce approved a plan to ban commercial fishing in the United States Arctic waters to be enforced until more information could be obtained to support sustainable fisheries management.
(16) When incorporated into a piggery for 500 pigs being planned by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the system should also reduce smell substantially both inside and outside the building.
(17) It seems likely, on current patterns of use, that our global fisheries will collapse by 2050 and, already, fresh water is becoming scarcer, placing global food security at ever greater hazard.
(18) Intel, too, seems to be moving in this direction: working with researchers from the University College Dublin, fisheries and the public works department, the chip manufacturer’s Leixlip, Ireland site has spent 15 years working to restore the Rye Water, a spawning ground for trout and salmon that leads to the Liffey River.
(19) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
(20) We reaffirm our Johannesburg Plan of Implementation commitment to eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and overcapacity taking into account the importance of this sector to developing countries, and we reiterate our commitment to conclude multilateral disciplines on fisheries subsidies which give effect to the WTO Doha Development Agenda and the Hong Kong Ministerial mandates to strengthen disciplines on subsidies in the fisheries sector, including through the prohibition of certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and over-fishing, recognising that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiation, taking into account the importance of the sector to development priorities, poverty reduction, and livelihood and food security concerns.