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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

English

Etymology

From Old French contingent, from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?n.d??nt/

Noun

contingent (plural contingents)

1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.

   Synonym: contingency

2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.

   Synonym: proportion

3. (military) A quota of troops.
   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.

Translations

Adjective

contingent (comparative more contingent, superlative most contingent)

1. Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.

   Synonyms: incidental, casual

   Antonyms: certain, inevitable, necessary, impossible

2. (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.

   Synonyms: conditional; see also Thesaurus:conditional
3. Dependent on something that may or may not occur.

4. Not logically necessarily true or false.
5. Temporary.

Translations

Derived terms

• contingentism
• contingentness

Related terms

• contact
• contingence
• contingency
• contingent claim

Further reading

• contingent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• contingent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• contingent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• contenting

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin conting?ns.

Adjective

contingent (masculine and feminine plural contingents)

1. contingent

Noun

contingent m (plural contingents)

1. contingent

Related terms

• contingència

Further reading

• “contingent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “contingent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “contingent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “contingent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin conting?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.t??.???/

Adjective

contingent (feminine singular contingente, masculine plural contingents, feminine plural contingentes)

1. contingent

Related terms

• contingence

Noun

contingent m (plural contingents)

1. quota
2. contingent

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

contingent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of conting?

Romanian

Etymology

From French contingent, from Latin contingens.

Adjective

contingent m or n (feminine singular contingent?, masculine plural contingen?i, feminine and neuter plural contingente)

1. contingent

Declension