13. (adj.)business of or pertaining to business or its procedures.
14. business suitable for or conducive to doing business.
Definition of 'business'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation 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. (noun)commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects "computers are now widely used in business"
3. (noun)occupation, business, job, line of work, line the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money "he's not in my line of business"
4. (noun)business a rightful concern or responsibility "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
5. (noun)business an immediate objective "gossip was the main business of the evening"
6. (noun)business the volume of commercial activity "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
7. (noun)business, business sector business concerns collectively "Government and business could not agree"
8. (noun)clientele, patronage, business customers collectively "they have an upper class clientele"
9. (noun)business, stage business, byplay incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect "his business with the cane was hilarious"
1. (noun)business buying and selling goods or services; = trade the construction business; We do a lot of business with China.; The company has been in business since 1988.
2. business go out of business to close a business They went out of business during the recession.
3. business an organization that buys and sells goods or services small businesses; a dry-cleaning business
4. business a matter or situation the nasty business of firing staff
5. business sb's business a privatematter The amount of money I make is my business.
Definition of 'business'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)business that which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure
3. (noun)business financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions
4. (noun)business that which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission
5. (noun)business affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words
6. (noun)business the position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stagemanager in rehearsal