Company

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The word company has several meanings:

  • - a company is the people who own or manage a business.
  • - company is people who visit. When they are with someone, they "keep that person company."
  • - in the military, a company is usually three groups called platoons along with the people who support them - about 120 to 200 people who do a certain kind of fighting.
  • - in the navy, a ship's company is everyone on a certain ship.