A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.

A company is a group of opera singers, dancers, or actors who work together.

A company is a group of soldiers that is usually part of a battalion or regiment, and that is divided into two or more platoons.

Company is having another person or other people with you, usually when this is pleasant or stops you feeling lonely.

You can say and company after mentioning a person's name, to refer also to the people who are associated with that person.

If you say that someone is in good company, you mean that they should not be ashamed of a mistake or opinion, because some important or respected people have made the same mistake or have the same opinion.

If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.

When you are in company, you are with a person or group of people.

If you feel, believe, or know something in company with someone else, you both feel, believe, or know it.

If you keep someone company, you spend time with them and stop them feeling lonely or bored.

If you keep company with a person or with a particular kind of person, you spend a lot of time with them.

If two or more people part company, they go in different directions after going in the same direction together.

If you part company with someone, you end your association with them, often because of a disagreement.

If you part company with someone on a particular subject, you disagree with them on it.

If you are making a general, unfavourable comment about a particular type of person, and you are with people of that type, you can say 'present company excepted' as a way of making your comment sound more polite.