different between coalition vs company

English

Alternative forms

• coälition (rare)

Etymology

From French coalition (“coalition”), from Late Latin alo (“I advance (cause, etc., communion)”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: k??l?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /ko???l???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

coalition (countable and uncountable, plural coalitions)

1. A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

   The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

2. (rare) The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
   • 2013 August 7, Joshi Herrmann, "How cricket netted the hipsters", London Evening Standard

     Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.

   • 2014 September 6, Darren Boyle, "Running wild! Mother cheetah has SIX cubs keeping her busy by jumping, hiding and climbing all over her", The Daily Mail

     Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.

   • 2015 June 11, "This is the moment an ostrich attempts to outrun cheetahs in Sir David Attenborough's latest show", Bristol Post

     This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• coalition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• coitional

French

Alternative forms

• coälition (rare)

Etymology

From Late Latin coalitus (“fellowship, communion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.a.li.sj??/

Noun

coalition f (plural coalitions)

1. coalition

Further reading

• “coalition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• companie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), 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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?mp?ni/
• Hyphenation: com?pany

Noun

company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
   1. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

   2. (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.
   3. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

   4. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
   5. (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.

2. A small group of birds or animals.
3. (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
4. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
5. (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
6. (uncountable) Companionship.

Synonyms

• (in legal context, a corporation): corporation
• (group of individuals with a common purpose): association, companionship, fellowship, organization, society
• (companionship): fellowship, friendship, mateship

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• accompany
• companion
• discompany

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (kampn?)

Translations

Verb

company (third-person singular simple present companies, present participle companying, simple past and past participle companied)

1. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.

     companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned

Synonyms

• (to accompany): attend, escort, go with
• (to have sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pa?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pa?/

Noun

company m (plural companys, feminine companya)

1. companion, colleague
2. partner, mate

Derived terms

• acompanyar

Related terms

• companyia

Further reading

• “company” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Noun

company

1. Alternative form of companye