company

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.Examples: "the boys in Company C"; "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."countableuncountable

2. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.countableuncountable

3. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.Examples: "As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company."countableinformaluncountable

4. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.Examples: "guys, we've got company (a common cliché in fiction)"countableuncountable

5. (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.Examples: "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.”"Synonyms: business, company, enterprise, firm, corporationcountableuncountable

6. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.Examples: "In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised."; "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle."; "The company added it has not “received any reports of adverse events,” but it’s moving forward with the recall out of “an abundance of caution.”"countableuncountable