(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.
Sticker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
(n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
(n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
(n.) Same as Paster, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
(2) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(3) A silent protester cries while wearing a sticker over her mouth signifying the loss in wages from the right-to-work law in Lansing, Michigan, on 12 December 2012.
(4) Following that, they were given a sticker and told that a bigger selection was on its way.
(5) Here, you pass cars with large stickers pronouncing “Real Men Shoot Wolves” to show support for six local poachers who were imprisoned for illegal hunting last year .
(6) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
(7) Various methods of capturing charges for supplies stocked on nursing units have been devised, such as stickers and charge slips attached to the items.
(8) Today, under ice and snow and behind the crowds of shoppers and tourists, little evidence remains of the terror – though on a metal railing on the pavement outside the Forum, a sticker shows a yellow and blue ribbon – the colors of the marathon finish line – and the post-attack slogan “ Boston Strong ”.
(9) Living well with dementia means more than signs and stickers and a memory clinic,” Ward says.
(10) Numerous educational materials were developed including training manuals, counseling booklets, tippee cups, posters, and bumper stickers.
(11) This study assessed the effects of dashboard stickers and signature sheets on safety belt use among occupants of state-owned vehicles in three Florida agencies.
(12) The album comes with a starter pack of 31 stickers, but I usually top it up straight away with an extra five or six packs to stop it looking too empty.
(13) Stickers and posters then began to appear around the New York suburb of Astoria before the organisation opened a branch there.
(14) They have decorated a box with stickers of sunflowers and, as part of Islam’s therapy, they are placing their mother’s possessions in it.
(15) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
(16) Others break up bits of old computers and DVD players for recycling, fitting together U-bends, applying stickers on radiator caps, and building bird tables, bug hotels and hedgehog boxes for sale.
(17) That campaign started spontaneously when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half an hour each day without pay in order to boost productivity, and urged the rest of the country to follow their initiative, prompting "I'm backing Britain" stickers and badges across the country in a post World Cup wave of patriotism.
(18) BITS AND BOBS A Colombian teacher has been accused of pilfering stickers from pupils to complete his own Panini World Cup album.
(19) Open 10am-11pm, but closed for refurbishment until July 2012 Purikura no Mecca Photograph: Alamy Having first appeared in the mid-1990s, sticker photo machines, aka purikura or "print club", are now a cultural mainstay – whether on a date or with friends, Japanese teens have become obsessed with posing for snaps in these increasingly ubiquitous booths.
(20) Someone has already put a sticker on the road sign at the entrance of the village celebrating it as Mladic's last home before he was found.