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Company † 
1 n. Hist. one of the fur trading companies, especially the Hudson's Bay Company or the North West Company.
- 1820 (1823) The masters of posts and wintering partners of the Companies, deemed this criminal indulgence to the vices of their servants necessary to stimulate them to extortion for the interest of the respective concerns.
2 n. the Company, the Hudson's Bay Company.
- 1697/8 (1908) The Humble Peticon of Peter Esprit Radisson Humbly sheweth . . . That during the late Reign a Price was set upon your Petr head by the French & several attempts were made upon him to assassinate him & that for none other reasons but for quitting his owne country & serving the compy.
- 1752 The Company have for eighty years slept at the edge of a frozen sea; they have shown no curiosity to penetrate further themselves, and have exerted their art and power to crush that spirit in others.
- 1870 (1883) The Company--not the Hudson Bay Company, but the Company--represented for him all law, all power, all government.
- 1963 From there, with two Loucheaux and six Company servants . . . he rafted down river. . . .
- 1820 (1823) The masters of posts and wintering partners of the Companies, deemed this criminal indulgence to the vices of their servants necessary to stimulate them to extortion for the interest of the respective concerns.