Significado de company em inglês

company

noun

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/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/ us

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company noun (BUSINESS)

A2 [ C ]

an organization that sells goods or services in order to make money:

He works for a software company/a company that makes software.

I work for Duggan and Company.

No smoking is company policy.

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The commercial future of the company looks very promising.
The company is concentrating on developing new products.
The law obliges companies to pay decent wages to their employees.
PolyGram is one of the world's largest record companies.
In the space of just ten years, her company has grown from one small shop to a multi-million-pound empire.

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company noun (OTHER PEOPLE)

B2 [ U ]

the fact of being with a person or people, or the person or people you are with:

I just enjoy his company.

It was a long trip and I was grateful for his company.

I enjoy my own company (= I like being alone).

I travelled in the company of (= with) two teachers as far as Istanbul.

I'd rather you didn't mention it when we're in company (= with other people).

I didn't realize you had company (= were with someone/people).

Margot came to stay for a week as company for my mother while I was away.

With only her thoughts for company (= being alone), she walked slowly along the beach.

be good company

to be pleasant and entertaining to be with:

You'll like Rosie - she's good company.

for company

If you do something for company, you do it to make you feel as if you are not alone:

I usually have the radio on for company.

keep sb company

to stay with someone so that they are not alone:

I'll keep you company till the train comes.

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You should take it as a compliment when I fall asleep in your company - it means I'm relaxed.
She didn't mix with her contemporaries, preferring the company of older people.
Where have you been? We've been deprived of your company for far too long!
She entranced them with her intellect and the joy of her company.
I can't stand academics - present company excepted .

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fair-weather friend
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company noun (THEATRICAL GROUP)

[ C ]

a group of actors, singers, or dancers who perform together:

She's in the National Theatre Company.

I'd like to thank the director, the choreographer and the other members of the company for being so supportive.

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He founded his own dance company.
She works for a theatre company in Leeds.
All the members of the company took the stage for a bow.

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company noun (GROUP)

[ C, + sing/pl verb ]

a large group of soldiers. especially a division of a battalion

[ C, + sing/pl verb ] UK

an organized group of young women who are Guides:

My cousin and I joined the same Guide company.

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Idiomas

be in good company

the company sb keeps

(Definição de company do Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

company | Dicionário Americano

company

noun

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/ˈkʌm·pə·ni/

company noun (BUSINESS)

[ C ]

an organization that produces or sells goods or services in order to make a profit:

He owns part of a company that manufactures software for personal computers.

company noun (OTHER PEOPLE)

[ U ]

the state of having someone with you, or the person or people who are with you:

It was a long trip and I was grateful for his company.

I traveled to Chicago in the company of two teachers (= with them).

We’re having company (= guests) for dinner tonight.

company noun (GROUP)

[ C ]

a group of people who work or perform together:

She’s spending the summer as part of a touring theatrical company.

[ C ]

A company is also a military unit consisting of a large group of soldiers, usually with a captain in charge of them.

(Definição de company do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

company | Inglês para Negócios

company

noun [ C ]

COMMERCE

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plural companies

an organization that sells goods or services in order to make money:

a big/large/small, etc. company We're a medium-sized company giving good value for money.

join/work for/leave a company Her husband has worked for the same company for 18 years.

set up/found/establish a company They want to set up a company selling children's clothing.

run/own a company She runs a company designing interactive computer programmes, websites, and CD-ROMS.

dissolve/liquidate a company This flowchart shows the steps you need to take in order to liquidate your company.

buy/buy out/take over a company The bank had bought out the company for $29 a share.

a company expands/shrinks At that time the company was expanding rapidly, opening a new branch every couple of months.

a company fails/ goes bankrupt/goes into liquidation Hargreaves lost thousands when the company went bankrupt.

company executives/policy/profits

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and Company
associated company
blue chip noun
cable company
close company
closed company
closely held company
closed-end investment company
commercial company
constituent company

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controlling company
credit company
daughter company
dock company
dual listed company
finance company
holding company
insurance company
investment company
joint-stock company
limited company
listed company
management company
mutual noun
mutual insurance company
offshore company
off-the-shelf company
open-ended investment company
parent company
private company
private limited company
property company
proprietary company
public company
public limited company
quoted company
real estate company
red chip
registered company
related company
shelf company
shell
small company
Small Business Investment Company
start-up
statutory company
stock company
subsidiary
target company
trading company
trust company
unit trust company
unlimited company
unquoted company

(Definição de company do Cambridge Dicionário de Inglês para Negócios © Cambridge University Press)

Exemplos de company

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The local press company may offer publications that cross-subsidize the provision of political information that supports the state.

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Shareholders expect returns on investments in pharmaceutical and biotechnologic companies.

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On the one hand, payout per dollar of premium might be reduced if insurance companies believe that wealthier retirees will live longer.

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The stage was cramped; the audience capacity was small; and the new theatre represented a severe financial liability to a very shaky opera company.

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To let respondents spontaneously express their opinions, an open-ended question requested of them to list conditions in their companies which they found attractive and unattractive.

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To probe this issue further, workers were requested to list the things they liked about their companies and things they did not like.

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And a theatre that has produced such high quality work in the past deserves a resident company.

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But there is always the pain and the loss that the calculating tables of insurance companies are not able to express, calculate, or compensate for.

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A consensus among physicians that lean was healthy only developed after insurance companies began promulgating ideal body-weight tables (the first appeared in 1912).

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One of the major stumbling blocks may be the availability of sufficient capital to fund the company's start up operations.

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Many good hits are made on the soft targets of transnational pharmaceutical companies.

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Oil companies have visited these localities but their collecting was more in the nature of spot-checks.

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A major turning point in the company's history was the six-month world tour which was undertaken in 1964.

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Therefore, an efficient product configuration system is required for a company to handle information regarding the characteristics of many product variants.

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The following variables had non-significant effects and were therefore not entered in the forward stepwise procedure : change in company, current activity, location, change in location.

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