compañía-1
company ; ship ; outfit.
Among the companies offering 'Mice' are Microsoft, Vision and Apple, but more are anticipated.
English companionships (or ships as they were usually called) were first described in Stower's manual of 1808.
The author compares the advantages and disadvantages of buying from the larger established companies and smaller outfits.
autorizado por la compañía
company-approved
Another strength of his book stems from the fact that it is not company-approved and consequently does not have to toe a party line.
compañía aérea
airline
airline carrier
Because the system can be updated continuously, it is possible for an airline to make available information about the number of standby seats on any given flight at the time of asking.
The arrival of cheap airline carriers in India has spiced up the whole affair.
compañía aérea barata
low-cost airline
low-cost carrier
Canadian biggest low-cost airline humbly apologizes to Air Canada for industrial espionage.
The fierce competition between these low-cost carriers in Australia has made airflight fares cheaper than ever.
compañía aérea de bajo coste
low-cost airline
low-cost carrier
Canadian biggest low-cost airline humbly apologizes to Air Canada for industrial espionage.
The fierce competition between these low-cost carriers in Australia has made airflight fares cheaper than ever.
compañía aseguradora
insurer
Naturally the division maintains close contact with the insurance industry through the British insurers' European Committee.
compañía aseguradora de vida
life-insurance company
After all, making a stink is bad news for any public company, let alone a life-insurance company.
compañía cibernética
dot-com [dot.com]
This dream suffered from a lack of funding and the distractions of the dot-com era's get-rich-quick schemes.
compañía cinematográfica
film production company
It began as a research collection but now also provides stock footage to film production companies.
compañía comercial
business firm
Collection and preservation of records is an expensive pursuit and the task of persuading cost conscious business firms that they ought to preserve their records is an unenviable one.
compañía con solera
mature company
Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn.
compañía de baile
dance company
dance troupe
Andrew Asnes has become a much-admired standout of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
The fact that she chose to dissolve the dance troupe she founded in 1965 is now beside the point.
compañía de ballet
ballet troupe
US ballet troupe to dance in Cuba for first time in 50 years.
compañía de compra por alquiler [Sistema de compra normalmente de aparatos eléctricos, televisores, etc por el que éstos pasan a ser propiedad del usuario tras el pago de un determinado número de mensualidades a modo de alquiler]
hire-purchase company
These are some of the questions the librarian may have to answer: 'Can you recommend a baby-sitter I can trust?', 'How can I stop the hire-purchase company taking back my furniture?', 'Which is the best shoe repairer's in the neighbourhood?'.
compañía de confección de ropa
clothing company
She worked at a local clothing company for a while and found the other staff and managers to all be very cliquey, bitchy and rather shallow.
compañía de correos, teléfonos y telecomunicaciones [Siglas usadas para referirse a todos aquellas empresas que en un país se encargan de ofrecer servicios de correos, teléfonos y telecomunicaciones]
PTT (Posts, Telephones and Telecommunications)
This article discusses how the PTTs (Postal, Telegraphs and Telecommunications administrations) handle information requests, charging policies, and user problems.
compañía de danza
dance company
Andrew Asnes has become a much-admired standout of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
compañía dedicada a la información
information company
The author presents a view of portal sites as a radically different model from those currently embraced by traditional information companies.
compañía de electricidad
power company
electricity company
The power company, of course, has a clever wheeze to put up its new pylons to add to the disfigurement of our countryside.
Other considerations when choosing an electricity company are the extra services that they provide and the sources of the energy they use.
compañía de ferrocarriles
railroad company
Railroad companies tend to use for ballast rocks that are chemically and physically resistant to weathering.
compañía de fusileros
rifle company
Habitually a rifle company received a resupply every fourth or fifth day in the field.
Compañía de Jesús, la
Society of Jesus, the
The missionaries of the Society of Jesus became the 1st group of people to provide Europe with regular information about the progress of their Eastern missions.
compañía de márketing
marketing company
We have established ourselves as one of the leading marketing companies in our sphere of operation.
compañía de música rock
rock company
This article briefly describes the development of rock video since the 1950s and the types of video the rock companies now market.
compañía de nueva creación
startup [start-up]
Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn.
compañía de radio televisión
broadcaster
Satellite and cable, home video, CD-ROM and laser disc all have huge implications for the reuse of archive material which exists on the library shelves of broadcasters.
compañía de ropa
clothing company
She worked at a local clothing company for a while and found the other staff and managers to all be very cliquey, bitchy and rather shallow.
compañía de seguros
insurance company
insurer
The author describes the achievements of one of the top eight US insurance companies drawn from adopting an imaging system.
Naturally the division maintains close contact with the insurance industry through the British insurers' European Committee.
compañía de seguros de vida
life-insurance company
After all, making a stink is bad news for any public company, let alone a life-insurance company.
compañía de suministro de energía
energy company
The writer discusses the collapse of Enron, the huge energy company that went bankrupt, destroying both the jobs and the life savings of thousands of employees.
compañía de teatro
troupe
Within ten days of arriving in London, James insisted that Shakespeare's troupe come under his own patronage.
Compañía de Telecomunicaciones Británica
British Telecom (BT)
Information providers pay a fee to British Telecom, and may then charge users for each frame that they consult.
Compañía de Telecomunicaciones Británica (BT)
British Telecom (BT)
Information providers pay a fee to British Telecom, and may then charge users for each frame that they consult.
compañía de teléfonos
telephone company
With respect to the private sector, the education and library community should establish long-term partnerships with telephone, cable, and computer companies.
compañía de televisión
television company
Partnerships between libraries, publishers and television companies can facilitate the delivery of access to new forms of learning and information.
compañía de televisión por cable
cable company
With respect to the private sector, the education and library community should establish long-term partnerships with telephone, cable, and computer companies.
compañía de trenes
railroad company
Railroad companies tend to use for ballast rocks that are chemically and physically resistant to weathering.
compañía de viajes
travel company
However there is considerable fear among certain sectors, such as travel companies and bus tour organizers in some countries.
compañía de vuelos chárter
charter airline
Europe's charter airline sector appears to have weathered both the global airline slump and financial crisis of the early 1990s.
compañía discográfica
record company
record label
music company
This article discusses the pressure for record companies and libraries to label pop music lyrics as 'explicit' and the range of content covered by this term.
But now record labels have been decimated by the digital shift, and are rethinking their entire business model to survive.
For Europeans, two and a half of the big four music companies are located right in their backyard.
compañía eléctrica
power company
electricity company
The power company, of course, has a clever wheeze to put up its new pylons to add to the disfigurement of our countryside.
Other considerations when choosing an electricity company are the extra services that they provide and the sources of the energy they use.
compañía embotelladora
bottler
This new machine will bring winemaking and winemakers in Australia into line with the type of technology being used by major bottlers around the world.
compañía en Internet
dot-com [dot.com]
This dream suffered from a lack of funding and the distractions of the dot-com era's get-rich-quick schemes.
compañía farmacéutica
pharmaceutical company
Fee-for-service programmes can target non-traditional market segments such as pharmaceutical companies, lawyers, and manufacturing firms who regularly need and willingly pay a premium price for perishable medical information.
compañía hipotecaria
mortgage company
Not all mortgage companies are the same.
compañía industrial
industrial firm
In libraries serving industrial firms, for example, the cost of not finding information may be high; this is why 'hard headed businessmen' add to their overheads by paying for extensive library services.
compañía inmobiliaria
real estate company
And then the real estate company went broke and left the residents in more dire straits than they had been before the bust.
compañía minera
mining company
This is a detailed account of the involvement of a librarian in a legal damages case where workers of an asbestos mining company sued the company for injuries caused by exposure to asbestos.
compañía multinacional [Nombre]
multinational
The government has hiked up the rate of income tax being paid by oil multinationals.
compañía naviera
shipping company
Topics covered at the Conference included: records of shipbuilding and shipping companies; agreements and crew lists; whaling; and Royal Navy and Merchant Marine.
compañía pretrolera
oil company
This technology is moving from the relatively obscure domains of oil companies and military strategists to the attention of those concerned with the consequences of access to and distribution of information.
compañía privada
private company
The article 'Private affluence and public squalor?' discusses the implications for libraries and information if public services are forced to open up their markets to free trade and thereby to private companies.
compañía publicitaria
advertising firm
In the early days of the service they received a $100,000 donation in kind from a major advertising firm.
compañía suministradora de agua
water authority
water board
water company
There is a similar lack of organization of such regional bodies as the hospital boards and water authorities.
Decision making by the Water Board on water levels was based on information on agricultural effects and the risk of damage to buildings and roads as a consequence of subsidence.
Britain's biggest water company has announced that will ban hosepipes and sprinklers from next month.
compañía teatral
troupe
Within ten days of arriving in London, James insisted that Shakespeare's troupe come under his own patronage.
compra de una compañía por otra
corporate takeover
This article describes a system designed to parse and understand short newspaper stories in the subject area of corporate takeovers and takeover bids.
crear una compañía
build + a company
In most cases, building a company is a marathon journey, a lot of hard work, and much less glamorous than the movies would have you think.
dirigir una compañía
run + a company
His wife ran the company for ten years until her son was ready to assume the responsibilities of the family business.
empleado de la compañía suministradora de agua
water board engineer
The Government (with the exception of the police and the armed forces and the telecom engineers, water board engineers and electricity supply people) seems still to be talking about what to do rather than doing.
montar una compañía
build + a company
In most cases, building a company is a marathon journey, a lot of hard work, and much less glamorous than the movies would have you think.
nombre de compañía
company name
Obvious examples are the unique proper nouns such as brand names and company names.
oferta de compra de una compañía por otra
takeover bid
This article describes a system designed to parse and understand short newspaper stories in the subject area of corporate takeovers and takeover bids.
sistema de compañías [Asociación de compositores que surgió en el siglo XIX para realizar trabajos de composición en cooperación y dirigida por un 'capataz' (clickler) y cuyos miembros se denominaban 'compañeros' (companions)]
companionship system
MacKeller mentions the companionship system in connection with hurried work, but there is evidence that it was also used for ordinary work by the middle of the century.
