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  "id": "company.economic",
  "term": "company",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "company",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a business of people working together",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "business.economic",
      "people.social",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "people do work in a business structure",
    "novel_properties": [
      "legal identity",
      "shared profit",
      "collective decision-making"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 367,000 workers across 59 countries to manufacture vehicles.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station relies on continuous collaboration between NASA, Roscosmos, and ESA personnel for operations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Wikipedia’s editing community of over 130,000 active volunteers functions as a nonprofit media company.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "business.economic",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "corporate.business",
    "corporation.business",
    "staff.people"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "companies",
    "company"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-company.economic"
}