OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 706

company

/ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
compaña • compañía
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
a company of actors
compaña • compañía
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
the boys in Company C
compañía de bomberos
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
It took six companies to put out the fire.
compañía • empresa
An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
a financial services company
“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
visitantes
Social visitors or companions.
Come, O thou Traveller unknown, / Whom still I hold, but cannot see! / My company before is gone, / And I am left alone with Thee; / With Thee all night I mean to stay, / And wrest…
Keep the house clean; I have company coming.
compaña • compañía
Companionship.
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sa…
I treasure your company.
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