An institution created to conduct business

Usage examples of company.

In the first half of the 18th century, when Bushire was an unimportant fishing village, it was selected by Nadir Shah as the southern port of Persia and dockyard of the navy which he aspired to create in the Persian Gulf, and the British commercial factory of the East India Company, established at Gombrun, the modern Bander Abbasi, was transferred to it in 1759.

The ablest lawyers in the Senate, in general, pressed the claim of the insurance companies to the balance of the fund, including Mr.

He fell in battle with a company of Abyssinian cavalry that held me captive.

He settles in Memphis in 1869, and accepts a position as head of an insurance company, which fails in 1873.

State, as a condition of doing business within its jurisdiction, may exact a license tax from a telegraph company, a large part of whose business is the transmission of messages from one State to another and between the United States and foreign countries, and which is invested with the powers and privileges conferred by the act of Congress passed July 24, 1866, and other acts incorporated in Title LXV of the Revised Statutes?

In the company of Richard Cranch, Adams had been seeing more and more of the Smith family, about whom he had had a change of heart.

There were presidents of fire companies and cricket clubs, Adams observed.

Not deliberately, at any rate, and in this company the likelihood of lice was slight compared to the sort of places in which poverty had forced Adele to eat and sleep for many years.

For company, and because he was worried about getting back, he took Adorno with him.

Salem accurate, but the information he gave allowed the Bureau agents to shut down an illegal Company operation.

On the other side of the chain-link fence that flanked the road they could see the hangars that served the airfreight companies and small charter firms.

Realising that he had no more to tell, I returned to Arkham and sat up till morning writing letters to Akeley, to the express company and to the police department and station agent in Keene.

Councilman, Alani and I would both be more than pleased to keep you company tonight.

Hassan of Aleppo has recovered the slipper and returned to the East, taking his gruesome company with him - God knows how!

Governor, has fallen into the company of one Algol, a Freethinker, a grotesque, a perennial problem on the street.