Company

A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose. Such usage includes people assembled

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• for commercial or judicial purposes, organised as a type of business organization. See company (law) or the term corporation which may have the same meaning, depending on the jurisdiction.
• for military purposes. See company (military unit).
• as the officers and crew, collectively, of a ship.
• as firefighters stationed in one locationhttp://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861690349, or even more specifically, firefighters associated with a single fire enginehttp://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_texts_web1828=fire-company.

Company is also the name of several creative works:

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• Company , a musical by Stephen Sondheim.
• Company , a book by Samuel Beckett.
• Company , a 2002 Hindi movie by Ram Gopal Varma starring Ajay Devgan and Vivek Oberoi.
• Company , a book by Max Barry, expected in late 2005.