firms Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
    firm; house; business firm.
    • he worked for a brokerage house
  2. verb become taut or tauter
    firm; tauten.
    • Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly
    • the rope tautened
  3. verb make taut or tauter
    firm; tauten.
    • tauten a rope

WordNet

Firms noun plural
Etymology
From Firm, a.
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together. Obs.

Webster 1913