the companyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

名詞

company (countable かつ uncountable; 複数形 companies)

1. A group of individuals with a common purpose

   a company of actors.

2. (law, business) An entity that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture. A corporation.
3. (business) Any business, without respect to incorporation.
4. (uncountable) Social visitors.
   • Keep the house clean, I have company coming.
5. (uncountable) companionship.
   • I treasure your company.
6. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
   • The Boys in Company C.
7. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
   • It took six companies to put out the fire.
8. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
9. (espionage) Nickname for an intelligence service.
   • As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.

同意語

• corporation

派生語

関連する語

• accompany
• companion
• discompany

動詞

company (三人称単数 現在形 companies, 現在分詞 companying, 過去形および過去分詞形 companied)

1. (archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts X:

     Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 2:

     it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”

統計情報

• Most common English words before 1923: persons · wrote · chief · #611: company · sweet · duty · heavy