food company
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- noun
- /fuːd ˈkʌmpəni/
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empresa alimentaria
- You know, food companies make money out of selling sugary drinks and sugar isn't good for people's health.
But that costs money, and it hurts the pet food company's profits.
- But that costs money, and it hurts the pet food company's profits.
- But also, these are American food companies doing this.
- A large fast food company, something like a Greg's will go under.
- Why, that is the most unnecessarily sexualized food company name since Kyle's Money Shot Hoagies.
- Just can't you create a food company where you can just send me the stuff already made?
- What IT education they do get is often taught by the pet food companies.
- They acquired Nabisco and some other food companies and built this massive business.
- I ask you again, who has the money to spend on marketing all the processed food companies?
- His name was Orator Francis Woodward, and he was running his own little sort of food company.
- And dopamine pathways are really interesting for food companies because dopamine pathways make you take action.
- If you are a food company, your goal is to get people to buy more food, to eat more food.
- It's ridiculous that food companies aren't engineering new equipment to make food that's both good for you and delicious.
Examples
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Why don't the big food companies want you to know what's in your food?
Blog text (25) -
We've never had food companies this big and this powerful in our history.
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If you are a food company, your goal is to get people to buy more food, to eat more food.
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Many of the big food companies are seeing their highest profits in two decades.
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Total spending by food companies has been around $45 million.
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The world's largest fast food company doesn't sell real food.
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Through slogans and tag lines, food companies slowly make your brain believe whatever they say about their food is the truth.
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In contrast, food companies are not required to notify any agency when potentially unsafe food has been identified.
Academic text (2006) -
We're the first buy-one-give-one food company; for every healthy snack bar we sell, we donate a meal to a hungry child.
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Many of the big food companies are seeing their highest profits in two decades.
Synonyms
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A person or company that makes food to sell
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a business that processes, manufactures, or sells food products' is directly and compositionally derived from 'food' (substance consumed) + 'company' (an organization selling goods/services). This noun-noun compounding pattern is regular in English and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Food company comes from joining food and company: imagine a bakery or factory where people make and sell food. That's why it means 'a business that makes or sells food'.