Meaning & use
co
A short form of company, often used after a business name.
See it in a sentence
The letter was addressed to Smith and Co., the family's trading business.
He works for a small shipping co. based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
A note on using this word
Co. is normally written with a period as an abbreviation; the combining form co- without a period instead means joint or together, as in cooperate.
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