Firm Hired Noun Fɜːm Fɜːrm Law/Consulting/Research Accounting/Investment Engineering

• a law/consulting/research firm
• an accounting/investment firm
• they hired an engineering firm to produce a model of their device.
• a firm of solicitors/accountants/architects

firm

1. a business or company
• a law/consulting/research firm
• an accounting/investment firm
• They hired an engineering firm to produce a model of their device.
• a firm of solicitors/accountants/architects
• She works for a firm of management consultants based in London.

Extra Examples

• By the age of only 28 she was a partner in a top law firm.
• the city's oldest and most prestigious law firm
• I'm a designer at a London-based publishing firm.
• The group hired a large PR and lobbying firm.
• They are an investment-banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions.
• She set up her own software firm.
• The technology is now available for use by government agencies and private firms.
• He founded a firm called Artek in 1935 to manufacture and distribute his designs.
• He owns a local construction firm.
• Wendy has joined the firm as director of marketing.
• Local firms are finding it difficult to compete in the international market.
• She hired a firm of private detectives to follow him.
• He is the senior partner of a firm of solictors.
• She heads a firm of independent financial advisers.
• The firm employs 85 000 people around the world.
• The firm was taken over by a multinational consultancy.
• The well-established firm closed down with the loss of 600 jobs.
• They are likely to merge with a bigger firm.
• US firms operating in China
• firms operating in domestic makets
• a firm specializing in high-tech products
• At 16 he went to work for the family firm.

Word Origin

• noun late 16th cent.: from Spanish and Italian firma, from medieval Latin, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in late Latin ‘confirm by signature’), from firmus ‘firm’; compare with farm. The word originally denoted one's autograph or signature; later (mid 18th cent.) the name under which the business of a firm was transacted, hence the firm itself (late 18th cent.).