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'''Firm''' or '''The Firm''' can have several meanings:
*Any [[business entity]] such as a [[corporation]], [[partnership]] or [[sole proprietorship]]. This more general meaning is used in [[macroeconomics]] (in terms such as [[ideal firm size]]).
*The word ''firm'' is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to refer to a business group of [[professional]]s, such as [[law firm]], [[architectural firm]], securities/financial firm (such as [[private equity]]), or [[Consulting|consulting firm]]. This use can be seen in phrases such as [[white shoe firm]]. Contrast with [[Sole proprietorship|sole practitioner]].
*[[British slang]] phrase for a [[Organized crime|criminal gang]] or [[Football hooliganism|football hooligans]] (see [[list of hooligan firms]]).
==Organizations==
*Organizations called The Firm:
**The Firm, a criminal gang active in the [[East End of London]], once run by the [[Kray twins]]
**The [[British Royal Family]], allegedly referred to as the "the Firm" by family members
**[[Secret Intelligence Service]] (SIS or MI6), one of the [[United Kingdom]] [[Intelligence agency|intelligence agencies]]
**[[McKinsey & Company]], a large [[Multinational corporation|multinational]] [[management consulting]] firm
**Firmaet, an [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] [[private intelligence agency]] in [[Demark]] run by former [[Danish resistance movement|Danish resistance movement leader]] [[Arne Sejr]]
**[[The Firm Skateboards]], a skateboard company that shut down in 2006.
==Music and popular culture==
*[[The Firm (EastEnders)]], a fictional organisation in the British TV series, ''EastEnders''
*[[The Firm (novel)|''The Firm'' (novel)]], a 1991 novel by [[John Grisham]]
**[[The Firm (1993 film)|''The Firm'' (1993 film)]], a 1993 movie based on the book
*[[The Firm (1988 film)|''The Firm'' (1988 film)]], a British TV movie starring [[Gary Oldman]]
*[[The Firm (band)]], a British rock group formed in 1984 by [[Jimmy Page]] and [[Paul Rodgers]]
*[[The Firm (group)]], a hip-hop music supergroup that released one album in 1997
*[[The Firm (Star Trekkin')]], a music act that produced the 1987 UK #1 hit "[[Star Trekkin']]"
*[[The Firm (pop group)]], a London-based pop group
*The F.I.R.M., a fictional organization in the TV series ''[[Airwolf]]''
*[[The Firm (TV series)|''The Firm'' (TV series)]], a 2007 [[Malaysia|Malaysian]] corporate [[reality television]] programme.
*[[The Firm, Inc.]], a Beverly Hills-based talent management company headed by Jeff Kwatinetz
==See also==
*[[FIRM]]
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