company vs league

company

noun
  • Companionship. 

  • A small group of birds or animals. 

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

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

  • A unit of firefighters and their equipment. 

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

  • The entire crew of a ship. 

  • Social visitors or companions. 

  • An intelligence service. 

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

league

noun
  • A group or association of cooperating members. 

  • A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. 

  • An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. 

  • The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). 

  • A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. 

  • A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟). 

  • An alliance or coalition. 

verb
  • To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. 

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