business
Meaning
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- A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- One's dealings; patronage.
- Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- A particular situation or activity.
- Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
- Something involving one personally.
- Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
- The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- (slang) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
- (slang) The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
- (slang) Disruptive shenanigans.
- matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)
Synonyms
business deal
buying and selling
business enterprise
commercial enterprise
line of work
business organisation
stage business
business entity
business-related
business sector
business organization
business activity
business concern
avocation
office work
professional work
trading operation
business establishment
buy and sell
clerical work
economic life
engage in
means of livelihood
item of business
thing to be done
going about one’s business
business life
matter to take care of
business community
commercial affair
important affair
of business
professional life
trading operations
tool bit
business groups
affair job
work incident
occurence matter
vocational work
set up business
trade activity
affair, business, case, object, thing, matter
manufacturage
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business corporation
business firm
business-like
commercial law
corporate body
economic activity
erst
exercitation
Frequency
Hyphenated as
busi‧ness
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
Etymology
From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness.
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