stock company; corporation; kabushiki kaisha; KK
security firm; security company
pharmaceutical (drug) company
brokerage; brokerage firm; broking house; securities company
shipping company; freight company; transport company
railroad corporation; railway company
real estate company; real estate firm; property firm
(private) investigation company; research agency
large industrial company; major corporation; big business
temporary staff recruitment agency; employment agency
travel agent; travel agency
rival (company); competitor
telecommunications company; telco
financing company; credit firm
limited company; company structure for small businesses, abolished in 2006 (YK)
dummy corporation; front company; shell corporation
steamship (shipping) company
sales company; distributor
corporate group; group businesses; group company; affiliated company
temporary employment agency; personnel placement agency; staffing agency; temp agency; temping agency
telco; telecommunications company; common carrier
bogus company; paper company
mobile phone operator; mobile network carrier; cellular company
company that exploits its employees (e.g. through unpaid overtime)
subcontractor; subcontracting company
animation studio; animation production company
listed company (on a stock exchange)
mutual aid or credit finance company
employment agency; staffing agency; personnel placement agency
industrial company; business firm
(electric) railroad company
family corporation; family company; affiliated concern
company needing reorganization (reorganisation)
low-cost carrier; LCC; low-cost airline
wholesale company; wholesaler
demutualization; becoming incorporated
unlimited company; unlimited partnership
foreign corporation; overseas company
specified purpose company; specific purpose company
controlling company; parent company
affiliated company; sister company
subsidiary of a subsidiary; sub-subsidiary; second-tier subsidiary
unlisted company (on a stock exchange)
wholesale company; wholesaler
limited liability company (US, Australia, etc.); LLC
issuing company (e.g. of a credit card)
non-dividend-paying company
commutative justice; justitia commutativa
regional Bell operating company; RBOC
front company set up to hide someone's true profession by pretending to employ them (often used by call girls)
long-distance telephone company
full parent company; wholly-owning parent company; sole parent company
Regional Bell Operating Company (USA); RBOC
surviving company (in a merger); surviving corporation
pseudo-foreign company; company based abroad but whose main country of business is Japan
surviving company (in a merger)
rolling stock (manufacturing) company
absorbed company; merged corporation
affiliated company; sister company
absorbed company; merged corporation
monoline insurance company; monoline insurer
multiline insurance company; multiline insurer
cooperative sales company
asset holding company (esp. Commonwealth countries)
multiple-system operator; multi-system operator; MSO; operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems