business
30 10 2008Nouns
1. (n.) business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern;
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it;
- “he bought his brother’s business”; “a small mom-and-pop business”; “a racially integrated business concern”;
2. (n.) business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise;
- the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects;
- “computers are now widely used in business”;
3. (n.) business, job, line, line of work, occupation;
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;
- “he’s not in my line of business”;
4. (n.) business;
- a rightful concern or responsibility;
- “it’s none of your business”; “mind your own business”;
5. (n.) business;
- an immediate objective;
- “gossip was the main business of the evening”;
6. (n.) business;
- the volume of commercial activity;
- “business is good today”; “show me where the business was today”;
7. (n.) business, business sector;
- business concerns collectively;
- “Government and business could not agree”;
8. (n.) business, clientele, patronage;
- customers collectively;
- “they have an upper class clientele”;
9. (n.) business, byplay, stage business;
- incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect;
- “his business with the cane was hilarious”;
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