<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.</li><li>a guest or guests: We're having company for dinner.</li><li>an assemblage of persons for social purposes.</li><li>companionship; fellowship; association: I always enjoy her company.</li><li>one's usual companions: I don't like the company he keeps.</li><li>society collectively.</li><li>a number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, especially for business: a publishing company; a dance company.</li><li>the members of a firm not specifically named in the firm's title: George Higgins and Company.</li><li>Military. the smallest body of troops, consisting of a headquarters and two or three platoons.</li><li>a unit of firefighters, including their special apparatus: a hook-and-ladder company.</li><li>Also called ship's company: a ship's crew, including the officers.</li><li>a medieval trade guild.</li><li>the Company, Informal: a nation's major intelligence-gathering and espionage organization, as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) Archaic: to associate.</li><li>(used with object) Archaic: to accompany.</li></ul>