business

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
2. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
3. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
4. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
5. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
6. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
7. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
8. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
9. (countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
10. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
11. (uncountable) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
12. (uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”).
14. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
15. (British, countable, slang, uncountable) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
16. (slang, uncountable) The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
17. (countable, slang, uncountable) Disruptive shenanigans.
18. (countable, uncountable) Matters.

Adj

1. Of, to, pertaining to, or used for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
2. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
3. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

Synonyms

trade

affair

commerce

matter

work

occupation

concern

job

case

enterprise

task

company

business deal

duty

affairs

firm

profession

employment

industry

thing

activity

operation

dealings

transaction

deal

undertaking

issue

errand

subject

transactions

engagement

vocation

labour

dealing

corporation

trading

establishment

buying and selling

traffic

venture

responsibility

business enterprise

line

duties

commercialism

skilful

service

commercial enterprise

economics

capable

economy

custom

use

cause

mission

line of work

act

bargain

organization

sale

obligation

matters

chore

interest

clientele

practice

effort

item

project

object

commercial

sales

labor

stuff

serve

business organisation

stage business

law

business entity

action

business-related

commission

shop

command

function

business sector

busyness

place

patronage

article

career

care

way

charge

operations

biz

problems

procedure

office

🏢

business organization

do

business activity

doing business

business concern

question

❓

racket

the business

circumstances

avocation

calling

📲

byplay

management

rule

office work

concerns

economic

leash

lesson

livelihood

liveliness

make

manage

manufacture

market

mercantile

mercantilism

merchant

misgiving

mob

motive

murder

mustering

narrative

nest

news

📰

occasion

occupations

offer

order

ordering

pack

paddling

parliament

partnership

pass

perform

pleasure

plump

pod

position

pounce

premise

present tense

presumption

pride

professional work

pursuits

purveyor

raft

reason

responsibilities

rigmarole

rite

ritual

role

rookery

rout

run

running

🏃

saying

school

🏫

seeking

serfdom

servitude

shebang

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

situation

skein

skulk

slavery

sleuth

sloth

🦥

solicitousness

something

sorrow

sounder

span

specialty

squad

stab

state

statement

store

string

🪢

stud

subsistence

suit

supposition

swarm

sweatshop

take

tasks

team

thingamajig

things

tiding

tittering

to-do

trading operation

trafficking

train

🚋

transactional

tribe

trip

troop

try

undertakings

usefulness

ventures

vocations

wedge

will

wish

word

workmanship

works

worry

harras

business establishment

buy and sell

clerical work

clowder

economic life

engage in

Enterprise

means of livelihood

thingamabob

item of business

thing to be done

going about one’s business

behaviour

crack

history

information

marketing

organisation

professions

business life

matter to take care of

business community

commercial affair

important affair

of business

murmuration

professional life

trading operations

tool bit

business groups

affair job

work incident

occurence matter

hirsel

bidness

cete

vocational work

set up business

trade activity

affair, business, case, object, thing, matter

business ventures

manufacturage

account

low deskinʼ

administer

anxiety

apprehension

army

ascension

assignment

assumption

attempt

attend

authority

bag

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bid

bike

🚲

blueprint

boar

🐗

brace

branch

brood

building

bunch

burden

bury

business corporation

business firm

business-like

business venture

buy

🛍️

campaign

cartload

ceremony

cheap

chowder

circle

⭕

circumstance

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

commercial law

companies

condition

confer

conjecture

corporate body

corps

covey

craft

crusade

dealer

deed

description

details

discuss

do business

doing

domain

down

drift

drove

economic activity

employ

endeavor

enterprises

entity

entrepreneurial

erst

essay

events

exaltation

exercitation

experience

fact

factory

🏭

family

👪

field

figment

finance

financial

flight

✈️

fling

flock

flush

foray

functions

gaggle

gang

go

grist

gulp

happening

harem

head

heed

herd

hive

house

🏠

hypothesis

indaba

institution

interests

intrigue

juridical person

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

lay

Translations

Geschäft

handel

affaire

commerce

entreprise

werk

zaken

negocio

Handel

beroep

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɪz.nɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: busines

Inherited from Old English: bisiġnes

In summary

From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness.

Sentences

Business before pleasure .

Please take a business card .

Please read my proposal for the future direction of the business .

The couple had two sons , both in the entertainment business .

So you combined pleasure with business !

Tourism business is one of the currently expanding activities in Monforte .