company

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/    美 /ˈkʌmpəni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.; A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose. countable,uncountable
    — a company of actors
  2. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.; A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion. countable,uncountable
    — the boys in Company C
  3. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.; A unit of firefighters and their equipment. countable,uncountable
    — It took six companies to put out the fire.
  4. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.; The entire crew of a ship. countable,uncountable
  5. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.; An intelligence service. countable,informal,uncountable
    — As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
  6. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.; A specific aircraft or its airline, usually used in air traffic communications to refer conveniently to another aircraft operated by the same airline. countable,informal,uncountable
  7. A small group of birds or animals. countable,uncountable
  8. An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation. countable,uncountable
    — a financial services company
  9. Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture. countable,uncountable
    — Marconi set up the company who made the first radios.
  10. One or more social visitor(s) or companion(s). uncountable
    — Keep the house clean; I have company coming.
  11. One or more other person(s) who are nearby, are approaching, or are (e.g. covertly) watching, especially if they may have hostile intentions (like adversaries or rivals). countable,uncountable
    — Get your guns ready: intel said there'd be no hostiles in the area, but it looks like we've got company.
  12. Companionship. uncountable
    — I treasure your company.
动词 v.
  1. To accompany, keep company with. archaic,transitive
    — Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an vnlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come vnto an alient […].
  2. To associate. archaic,intransitive
    — Men which have companied with us all the time.
  3. To be a lively, cheerful companion. intransitive,obsolete
    — If thee list unto the Court to throng […]there thou needs must learne, to laugh, to lie, To face, to forge, to scoffe, to companie.
  4. To have sexual intercourse. intransitive,obsolete
    — companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned

词形变化

companies plural companie alternative,obsolete companies present,singular,third-person companying participle,present companied participle,past companied past companie alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
have sex make love
下位词
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衍生词
a man is known by the company he keeps and company bad company biocompany blank check company bubble company community interest company companization company car company clinic company doctor company front company law company man company officer company register company seal company sergeant major company-specific company store company time company town company union companywide compliance company daughter company fish and company stink after three days freight operating company ghost company in-company in company with intercompany intracompany keep company keep someone company letterbox company limited company mailbox company megacompany merry company misery enjoys company misery loves company multicompany noncompany oil company part company present company excepted private limited liability company public limited company public limited liability company record company shell company shipping company subcompany supercompany telco the company touring company two's company and three is none two's company, three's a crowd umbrella company unlimited company we have company who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl you don't dip your pen in company ink
相关词
accompany companion discompany

词源

词源 1
From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.
词源 2
From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.
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