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Ursula Burns

Meaning of "companies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPANIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPANIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Companies is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb companies in English.

WHAT DOES COMPANIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Company

A company is an association or collection of individuals, whether natural persons, legal persons, or a mixture of both. Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms such as: ▪ Voluntary associations which may be registered as a nonprofit organization ▪ A group of soldiers ▪ Business entities with an aim of gaining a profit ▪ Financial entities and banks A company or association of persons can be created at law as legal person so that the company in itself can accept Limited liability for civil responsibility and taxation incurred as members perform to discharge their duty within the publicly declared "birth certificate" or published policy. Because companies are legal persons, they also may associate and register themselves as companies - often known as a corporate group. When the company closes it may need a "death certificate" to avoid further legal obligations.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COMPANIES

PRESENT

Present
I company
you company
he/she/it companies
we company
you company
they company
Present continuous
I am companying
you are companying
he/she/it is companying
we are companying
you are companying
they are companying
Present perfect
I have companied
you have companied
he/she/it has companied
we have companied
you have companied
they have companied
Present perfect continuous
I have been companying
you have been companying
he/she/it has been companying
we have been companying
you have been companying
they have been companying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I companied
you companied
he/she/it companied
we companied
you companied
they companied
Past continuous
I was companying
you were companying
he/she/it was companying
we were companying
you were companying
they were companying
Past perfect
I had companied
you had companied
he/she/it had companied
we had companied
you had companied
they had companied
Past perfect continuous
I had been companying
you had been companying
he/she/it had been companying
we had been companying
you had been companying
they had been companying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will company
you will company
he/she/it will company
we will company
you will company
they will company
Future continuous
I will be companying
you will be companying
he/she/it will be companying
we will be companying
you will be companying
they will be companying
Future perfect
I will have companied
you will have companied
he/she/it will have companied
we will have companied
you will have companied
they will have companied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been companying
you will have been companying
he/she/it will have been companying
we will have been companying
you will have been companying
they will have been companying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would companies
you would companies
he/she/it would companies
we would companies
you would companies
they would companies
Conditional continuous
I would be companying
you would be companying
he/she/it would be companying
we would be companying
you would be companying
they would be companying
Conditional perfect
I would have companies
you would have companies
he/she/it would have companies
we would have companies
you would have companies
they would have companies
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been companying
you would have been companying
he/she/it would have been companying
we would have been companying
you would have been companying
they would have been companying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you company
we let´s company
you company
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to company
Past participle
companied
Present Participle
companying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPANIES

compander
companiable
companied
Companies Act
companion
companion animal
companion hatch
companion ladder
companion piece
companion set
companion volume
companionability
companionable
companionableness
companionably
companionate
companionhood
companionless
companionship
companionway

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPANIES

accompanies
balconies
beanies
botanies
Brittanies
Brownies
ceremonies
denies
dittanies
epiphanies
litanies
mahoganies
meanies
miscellanies
rhatanies
sanies
theophanies
tiffanies
tympanies
zanies

Synonyms and antonyms of companies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COMPANIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «companies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of companies

Translation of «companies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPANIES

Find out the translation of companies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of companies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «companies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

公司
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

empresas
570 millions of speakers

English

companies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कंपनियां
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشركات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

компании
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

empresas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কোম্পানি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

entreprises
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Syarikat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unternehmen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

企業
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perusahaan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

công ty
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிறுவனங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंपन्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şirketler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

aziende
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

firmy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

компанії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

companii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εταιρείες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maatskappye
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

företag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selskaper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of companies

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPANIES»

The term «companies» is very widely used and occupies the 1.884 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of companies
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «companies».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPANIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «companies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «companies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about companies

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «COMPANIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word companies.
1
Adam Ant
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
2
Dick Armey
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
3
Ken Auletta
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
4
Ahmed Ben Bella
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
5
Alex Berenson
It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.
6
Marco Brambilla
A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
7
Marcus Buckingham
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.
8
Ursula Burns
Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
9
Jason Calacanis
The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.
10
Lisa Caputo
Citigroup has the opportunity to be the largest financial institution and to serve us well. What we decide to do is not what everybody else does. Other companies sponsor women's events and put a woman's face in advertising. This is financial services wrapped in pink.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPANIES»

Discover the use of companies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to companies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
" Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations ...
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras, 2002
2
The Truth About The Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us And ...
A physician and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine provides an explosive critique of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing its dangerous influence on medical research, education, and physicians; exposing the ...
Marcia Angell, 2005
3
The Knowledge-creating Company: How Japanese Companies ...
Looks at case studies from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, and NEC, and examines two types of business knowledge, explicit and tacit
Ikujirō Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, 1995
4
50 Companies That Changed the World
The book also shows how some, nonetheless, fell from their pinnacle when they failed to follow the path that made them successful. Each sketch will spark discussion and debate as readers ponder the auhtor's rankings.
Howard Rothman, 2004
5
Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
This book explores how Conley's company "the second largest boutique hotelier in the world" overcame the storm that hit the travel industry by applying Maslow's theory to what Conley identifies as the key Relationship Truths in business ...
Chip Conley, 2007
6
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge ...
The Knowing-Doing Gap is the first book to confront the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results.
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton, 2013
7
Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a ...
In Copycats, Oded Shenkar challenges this viewpoint. He reveals how imitation?the exact or broad-brushed copying of an innovation?is as critical to prosperity as innovation. Shenkar shows how savvy imitators generate huge profits.
Oded Shenkar, 2013
8
Guide to Analysing Companies
How do you tell how well-run a company is and how well it is doing?
Bob Vause, 2009
9
Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to ...
An examination of corporate innovation processes identifies the challenges presented by digital simulation technologies and explores the impact of prototyping and experimentation on corporate structures
Michael Schrage, 2013
10
Valuation of Companies in Emerging Markets: A Practical Approach
This is a fundamental book to be read by all professionals involved in private equity in emerging markets.
Luis E. Pereiro, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPANIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term companies is used in the context of the following news items.
1
China companies rush to suspend their shares; 40% of all stocks …
More than 1,200 listed Chinese companies had their stocks in trading halt ... But with an ever-larger number of companies seeking to pull their ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
2
Shanghai stocks plunge, over 1200 Chinese companies halt trading
The falls came despite the government announcing new measures to support the market, including allowing insurance companies to invest ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
3
India IT companies seek booster shot from Obamacare
"The best chance that Indian companies will have is to make acquisitions of companies that specialize in healthcare technologies," said Kevin ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
These are the first 500 companies allowed to fly drones over the US
Companies like BNSF railroad are harbingers of a new era in ... exploring the companies that have been given permission to fly and what they ... «The Verge, Jul 15»
5
How China's stock market drop affects tech companies
For tech companies listed in China, the signs aren't great. The government's measures have helped prop up stock prices, but this is disproportionately affecting ... «Tech in Asia, Jul 15»
6
This list of 'junk' companies keeps getting longer
For the first time since July 2010, that group of at-risk issuers numbered more than 200. The 206 companies represented a 12 percent gain just ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
7
China mainland shares plummet as companies suspend trading
Mainland Chinese shares continued to plummet on 8 July as the country's equity troubles deepened, causing several companies to suspend ... «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
8
How Companies Can Improve Recruitment And Engagement With …
As more and more companies make gamification a part of how they work, having fun—in the context of game playing—is becoming a big part of ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
9
Frost & Sullivan to Recognize Top Companies in Philippines at the …
This year, a total of 26 awards will be presented to various companies in the ICT, logistics, building technologies, energy, environment and ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
10
Salviol Raises €6.5 Million Series A To Help Companies Use Big …
The company's flagship FROPS software uses big data to help companies detect and prevent both internal and external fraud, thus targeting ... «TechCrunch, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Companies [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/companies>. May 2024 ».
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