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 Definitions of business  [ˈbɪz nɪs]  

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Definition of 'business' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) business
an occupation, profession, or trade.

2.  business
the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit.

3.  business
a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service.

4.  business
volume of trade; patronage or custom.

5.  business
a store, office, factory, etc., where commerce is carried on.

6.  business
that with which a person is principally and seriously concerned:
Words are a writer's business.

7.  business
something with which a person is rightfully concerned:
Their decision is none of my business.

8.  business
affair; project:
fed up with the whole business.

9.  business
the business,

10.  business
harsh or duplicitous treatment.

11.  business
a severe scolding:
to give someone the business.

12.  business
excrement: used as a euphemism.

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"


Definition of 'business' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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 private matter
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

2. (noun) business
any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession

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 stage manager in rehearsal

7. (noun) business
care; anxiety; diligence


Definitions of 'business' The Roycroft Dictionary 

business
Looking a payroll in the eye and kiting checks.

2. A method of reducing a landlady to her lowest terms.


Translation of 'business' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: occupation; buying and selling
Selling china is my business; The shop does more business at Christmas than at any other time.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: besigheid, beroep Arabic flag Arabic: مِهْنَةٌ، وَظيفَه، عَمَل Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: работа
Brazilian flag Brazilian: negócio Czech flag Czech: zaměstnání, obchodování German flag German: das Geschäft
Danish flag Danish: forretning Greek flag Greek: εργασία, ασχολία, δουλειέ Spanish flag Spanish: negocio
Estonian flag Estonian: äri(tegevus), firma Farsi flag Farsi: شغل؛ حرفه Finnish flag Finnish: liiketoiminta
French flag French: métier; affaire(s) Hebrew flag Hebrew: עֲסָקִים Hindi flag Hindi: उद्योग
Croatian flag Croatian: posao Hungarian flag Hungarian: foglalkozás, üzlet Indonesian flag Indonesian: pekerjaan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: starf; verslun, viðskipti Italian flag Italian: affari, attività Japanese flag Japanese: 商売
Korean flag Korean: 거래, 매매 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: užsiėmimas, komercinė vei Latvian flag Latvian: nodarbošanās; bizness; ti
Malay flag Malay: urus niaga Dutch flag Dutch: handel, zaken Norwegian flag Norwegian: yrke, forretning(er); han
Polish flag Polish: zajęcie, działalność gosp Persian flag Persian: شغل؛ حرفه Pashto flag Pashto: شغل، مسلک
Portuguese flag Portuguese: negócio Romanian flag Romanian: afacere; meserie Russian flag Russian: бизнес; торговля
Slovak flag Slovak: zamestnanie, obchodovanie Slovenian flag Slovenian: posel, kupčija Serbian flag Serbian: poslovanje
Swedish flag Swedish: bransch, yrke, affärer, h Thai flag Thai: ธุรกิจ Turkish flag Turkish: iş, ticaret
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 本行,生意 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: справа; комерційна діяльн Urdu flag Urdu: خریدوفروخت کا کاروبار
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: công việc; kinh doanh Chinese flag Chinese: 商业,生意

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