company

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noun a business organisation, a group of people organised to buy, sell, or provide a service, usually for profit
prefix working or acting together

Term used primarily to refer to a business first party, the purpose of which is to supply a product or service. In a capital project, typically refersto the contractor who is performing services for an owner or client.

noun a business which makes money by making or buying and selling goods, or by providing a service
abbreviation in Internet addresses, the top-level domain for Colombia

noun a group of people organised to buy or sell or provide a service which has been legally incorporated, and so is a legal entity separate from its individual members
noun an organisation in the City of London which does mainly charitable work and is derived from one of the former trade associations
abbreviationCo

Essentially, coy is the same word as quiet, and ‘quiet’ is what it meant when it first came into English (it soon developed to ‘shyly reserved’, and the sense ‘quiet’ died out in the 17th century). Its ultimate source was Latin quiētus, but whereas in the case of quiet this passed directly through Old French, coy came via the more circuitous route of vulgar Latin *quētus, which produced early Old French quei, and later coi, the source of the English word.

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