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1. a. An abbreviation of company; esp. in the sense: The partners or members of a firm whose names do not appear in the style or title.
1679J. Verney Let. 14 July in M. M. Verney Memoirs (1899) IV. vii. 258 We pay off our debts that if the Co: be broke nobody may be sufferers but those that are of it. 1759Compl. Letter-Writer (ed. 6), London: Printed for Stanley Crowder, and Co. 1778Whitehead's Newcastle Directory 49 Sugar-houses: Atkinson and Co., Quay-side. Forster and Co., Close. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master v. 98 He swore he'd give John Co. the slip. 1823Moore Fables v. 61 This most ill-matched unholy Co. From whence the ills we witness flow. 1843Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxi, Don't have my name in it..I must be Co., I must.
b. colloq. in phr. and Co.: and the rest of that set, and things of a similar nature or appearance.
1757Chesterfield Lett. IV. 92 He is resolved to make a push at the Duke of N., Pitt., and Co. 1848A. H. Clough Let. 4 Sept. in N.Z. Lett. of T. Arnold (1966) 114 She is terribly given to Maurice and Co.: and of the Co specially to Kingsley. 1896G. B. Shaw Let. 16 Nov. in Ellen Terry & Bernard Shaw (1931) 124 How did it go? Not, like Cymbeline and Co., by dint of everybody in the theatre making believe..that they were witnessing a great work, but really. 1911T. E. Lawrence Let. 26 Aug. (1938) 120, I hope by quinine & co. to stave off any more attacks. 1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xv. 199 Almost in the shadow of such giants as the Jungfrau, Weisshorn and Co. 1959Listener 24 Dec. 1121/1 What Khrushchev and Co. might do is one thing.
c. in Co. (with), in company (with). U.S. colloq. ? Obs.
1816U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. XI. 147 This morning..in Co.: with Doctor William Lee Brook, traverses Janesville. 1838A. Ganilh Mexico v. Texas 11 Two foreign physicians, the one a Frenchman, the other an American, exercised the healing art in Co.
2. A written abbreviation of county.
1866Tate Brit. Mollusks iv. 109 Recorded from Clifden, co. Galway.
3. Also co-. Colloq. abbrev. of co-respondent (in a divorce suit).
1900E. Wells Chestnuts xx. 199 More divorce made easy. As usual the co-, a well-known actor, was very friendly with both husband and wife. 1902‘N. Gubbins’ Dead Certainties 21 ‘We [sc. a firm of solicitors] have already drafted an advertisement, with the object of obtaining a ‘co’.’ ‘A what, sir?’.. ‘A co-respondent.’ |