Noun

A team; a group of people who work together professionally.

# A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

# (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.

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, chapter=30, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}

# A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

# (label) The entire crew of a ship.

# (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.

(label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.

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(label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.

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, volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title=Money just makes the rich suffer citation

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(label) Social visitors or companions.

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, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}

(label) Companionship.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company . When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

Noun

(wikipedia area)

(mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.

A particular geographic region.

Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.

Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Making Life from Scratch , passage=Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.}}

(British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.

(Charles Dickens)

(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Wigan 2-2 Arsenal , passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.}}

(slang) Genitals.