Auftraggeber

1. principal
2. employer
3. client, customer

waren

first/third-person plural preterite of sein

neben

1. next to, beside, alongside, adjacent to, near, near to
2. in addition to, besides, alongside, apart from, aside from, among, amongst, on top of
3. compared with

auch

• Adv

  1. also; too; as well (in addition to whatever or whoever has previously been listed)
  2. Used for emphasis.
  3. Used for emphasis.
  4. Used for emphasis.
  5. even (implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality)
  6. ever as in whatever, whenever, however, etc.

• Intj

Städte

nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Stadt

Gemeinden

plural of Gemeinde

und

• Conj

  1. and
  2. (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them

• Intj

Unternehmen

gerund of unternehmen