company: Meaning and Definition of

com•pa•ny

1. a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
2. a guest or guests: We're having company for dinner.
3. an assemblage of persons for social purposes.
4. companionship; fellowship; association: I always enjoy her company.
5. one's usual companions: I don't like the company he keeps.
6. society collectively.
7. a number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, esp. for business: a publishing company; a dance company.
8. (cap.) the members of a firm not specifically named in the firm's title: George Higgins and Company.
1. the smallest body of troops, consisting of a headquarters and two or three platoons.
2. any relatively small group of soldiers.
3. Army.a basic unit with both tactical and administrative functions.
10. a unit of firefighters, including their special apparatus: a hook-and-ladder company.
11. Also calleda ship's crew, including the officers.
12. a medieval trade guild.
13. a nation's major intelligence-gathering and espionage organization, as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
14. My sister has been keeping company with a young lawyer.
1. to associate with; be a friend of.
2. Informal.to go together, as in courtship:My sister has been keeping company with a young lawyer.
15. We parted company 20 years ago after the argument.
1. to cease association or friendship with:We parted company 20 years ago after the argument.
2. to take a different or opposite view; differ:He parted company with his father on politics.
3. to separate:We parted company at the airport.

1. to associate.

1. to accompany.