major company

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandcompany

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major
adjective
uk
/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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company
noun
uk
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/us
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/
an organization that sells goods or services in order to ...
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(Definition ofmajorandcompanyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Onemajorcompany, which is a household name, raised money at a figure which was no lower than the return on its capital employed.
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I do not believe that the creation of another independentmajorcompanywill make the threat of attack even greater.
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A number of companies have made fairlymajorcompanyreconstructions to be able to qualify for the three-year surplus.
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Is it not the case that only onemajorcompanyhas fallen in with this ploy, and that all the others are minor companies?
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The size and structure of thatmajorcompanyhas an enormous impact upon all the smaller companies that supply it with products.
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On the point regarding the directors of subsidiary companies, very often they are employees of themajorcompanywho are paid a salary.
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I do not think that it is an appropriate way for amajorcompanyto behave in today's economy.
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Onemajorcompanyhas refused to submit financial returns since 1990 and has resisted all approaches to comply.
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There is an example of onemajorcompanydoing that at the moment.
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It is, of course, done by everymajorcompanyin the world.
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The industry cannot be healthy when onemajorcompanycontrols such a large section, for example, of the spinning sector.
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Could the provision apply to people who work for amajorcompany, are based overseas but are on the payroll of the head office?
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He would have been totally unable to carry anybody with him in a board room of amajorcompany.
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Themajorcompanyin that market is once again doing its best to kick the investigation into the long grass.
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He knows, as everybody concerned with company law and administration knows, that the introduction ofmajorcompanylegislation is a very rare occurrence indeed.
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I sit on the board of amajorcompanywhich has a worker director.
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First, eachmajorcompanyhas new areas and/or new periods of the week in which to broadcast.
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The essence lies much more in establishing a framework for domestic expansion in each industrial sector and in eachmajorcompany.
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During the past few weeks, amajorcompanyin my constituency has made a further 400 people redundant.
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The redundancies announced by thatmajorcompanywere sad.
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