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Convenient can be compared with comfortable in the following examples:
5. a comfortable seat
— one in which the body feels at ease
6. a comfortable train
— one with soft seats, etc.
7. a comfortable dress
— one which does not restrict one's movements
a convenient seat
— one which is, for example, easy to reach (in a bus, theatre, etc.)
a convenient train
— one which runs at a suitable time
a convenient dress
— one which can be worn on various occasions, or is easy to wash, etc.
Exercise. Fill in the blanks with comfortable or convenient. In cases where both are possible, explain the difference in meaning.
1. —Will ten o'clock be a ... time for you? 2.— There isn't much food value in packet soups but they're very ... . 3. —I think you will be more ... in the armchair. 4. — I want to put on some more ... shoes to go shopping. These are hurting me. 5. — The Red Arrow is the most ... overnight train to Moscow. 6. —The bed in the hotel was very ... . 7, —Foil is very ,.. for storing food and for cooking, too,
37 for example, roasting chicken. 8. Themedical report said that the patient was ... . 9. —I like this skirt because it's so ... . 10. — Their flat is more ... than mine. 11. In the evening he liked to relax in a ... chair and read or watch television. 12. — It's very ... to book tickets by telephone. 13. —Is your timetable ... this term? 14. (Hostess to guest) — Please make yourself ... . 15. —Instant coffee doesn't taste like real coffee.—No, but it's very ... . 16. — This settee can be pulled out to make a bed.—How ... ! 17. A successful barrister has a very ... life. 18. The hours (of work) are not ... for women with children but the management refuses to change them.
Company, Firm, Enterprise
Most business organizations in Britain and the USA are officially called companies. (There are various types of companies, whose legal position is fixed by company law.) However, since company has various other meanings, we do not usually say simply He works for a company but, for example,
1. He works for a steel/oil!shipping company.
Note the use of the preposition for here. It is also used with the names of companies, state-owned organizations, etc.
Dunlop. ( a company which produces
rubber goods) BP. (=British Petroleum) ICI. ( = Imperial Chemical Industries) the Post Office.
Company occurs in conversation and informal writing (as can be seen from example 1 above) but firm is often used instead here.
a chemical firm, an electrical engineering firm, a firm of architects.
Note that firm is preferable to company in any style when followed by of, as in a firm of architects above, or when followed by the name, as in, for example, the firm (of) Ponds (a cosmetic firm).
However, firm is not used as an alternative to company in all spheres. For example, it is not used instead of company in film/television company.
Note also that neither firm nor company is used of an organization which organizes air travel. This is an airline.
Enterprise is not widely used in the sense of a business organization. The meaning is not even given in the SOED or the COD, which defines the word as follows;
eg 2. — He works for
eg 3. — He works for
38 Undertaking, esp. bold or difficult one; courage, readiness to engage in enterprises, as "He has no enterprise."
(The second sense corresponds to the Russian предприимчивость).
Hornby does not give the meaning of a business organization either, but it is included in Chambers' and Webster's definitions: "a business concern" (Chambers); "a business organization" (Webster). Enterprise seems to be used in this sense only occasionally when the meaning is implied by the context, or when qualified, as in "an industrial enterprise". To speak about enterprises in general, without a context, or to say, for example, that someone works at an enterprise (in the sense of работает на предприятии) is not at all clear. Besides, enterprise is confined to formal style. (In some cases работать на предприятии may be translated as work in industry.)
Enterprise is also used uncountably in the following economic terms:
— private enterprise — the carrying on of production, commerce, etc. by private individuals or companies, not by the state (частное предпринимательство).
eg 4. The Conservative Party supports private enterprise whereas the Labour Party favours nationalisation.
— free enterprise — the conduct of business and commerce with the minimum of government control.
eg 5. The supporters of free enterprise claimed that the principle of supply and demand was more effective than government controls in regulating the economy.
Exercise. Fill in the blanks with company, firm or enterprise (sg. or pi.). Note that in some cases there may be two versions, one more colloquial than the other.
1. When she left school she got a job with a publishing ... . 2. Itl the Soviet Union all industrial ... are state-controlled. 3. This ... produces a wide range of high-quality leather goods. 4. The ... he works for is closing two of its factories so he may be made redundant soon. 5. Mr Richardson is an expert on ... law. 6. The famous English conductor and producer Sir Thomas Beecham showed great ... in inviting the Russian opera to London for the first time in 1913 and renting Drury Lane Theatre for the season because his associates at Covent Garden did not think that such a tour would be successful. 7. The BalticShipping ... (Балтийское морское пароходство) was established in 1922. 8. Theyoffered the contract to a local building ... . 9. The actors are English but the film was made by an American film ... . 10. Her husband works for a civil engineering ... in Bristol. 11. A mixed economy is one with a combination of nationalisation and private ... . 12. Twinings is a famous English ... of tea merchants.
