'Business' definitions:
Definition of 'business'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation]
noun
The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [syn: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business]
noun
The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line]
noun
A rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
noun
An immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening"
noun
The volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
noun
Business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: business, business sector]
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Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: business, stage business, byplay]
Definition of 'Business'
From: GCIDE
- Business \Busi"ness\ (b[i^]z"n[e^]s), n.; pl. Businesses (b[i^]z"n[e^]s*[e^]z). [From Busy.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? --Luke ii. 49. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. [1913 Webster]
- It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. --Bp. Popteus. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission. [1913 Webster]
- The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- What business has the tortoise among the clouds? --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words. [1913 Webster]
- It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Bestow Your needful counsel to our business. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.
- To make (a thing) one's business, to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.]
- To mean business, to be earnest. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement; employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession; vocation; office; duty. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'business'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acting,
- action,
- activeness,
- activism,
- activity,
- affair,
- aktiebolag,
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- allegiance,
- area,
- art,
- assigned task,
- attempt,
- balance of trade,
- big business,
- body corporate,
- bounden duty,
- buffoonery,
- burden,
- business dealings,
- business establishment,
- call of duty,
- calling,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- cartel,
- chamber of commerce,
- characterization,
- charge,
- combine,
- commerce,
- commercial,
- commercial affairs,
- commercial enterprise,
- commercial relations,
- commitment,
- compagnie,
- company,
- concern,
- concernment,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- consolidating company,
- consortium,
- contract,
- copartnership,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- craft,
- custom,
- deal,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- dedication,
- deference,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- dingus,
- diversified corporation,
- dofunny,
- doing,
- doings,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- effort,
- employment,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- establishment,
- ethics,
- fair trade,
- fealty,
- firm,
- free trade,
- function,
- gadget,
- gag,
- game,
- gizmo,
- goings-on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- handicraft,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- holding company,
- homage,
- hootenanny,
- house,
- imperative,
- impersonation,
- industrial,
- industry,
- intercourse,
- interest,
- issue,
- jigger,
- job,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- lifework,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of duty,
- line of work,
- lookout,
- loyalty,
- market,
- marketing,
- matter,
- mercantile,
- mercantile business,
- merchant,
- merchantry,
- metier,
- militancy,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mission,
- motion,
- movement,
- multilateral trade,
- mummery,
- must,
- mystery,
- number,
- obligation,
- occasions,
- occupation,
- office,
- onus,
- operating company,
- operation,
- organization,
- ought,
- outfit,
- overacting,
- palaver,
- pantomiming,
- partnership,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- place,
- plan,
- playacting,
- playing,
- plunderbund,
- point,
- political activism,
- pool,
- portrayal,
- practice,
- problem,
- proceeding,
- proceedings,
- profession,
- program,
- project,
- projection,
- proposition,
- proprietorship,
- province,
- public utility,
- pursuit,
- question,
- racket,
- reciprocal trade,
- representation,
- respect,
- responsibility,
- restraint of trade,
- retail,
- role,
- self-imposed duty,
- slapstick,
- small business,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stir,
- stock company,
- stunt,
- subject,
- syndicate,
- taking a role,
- task,
- the business world,
- the marketplace,
- thing,
- thingumajig,
- topic,
- trade,
- trade association,
- trading,
- traffic,
- transaction,
- truck,
- trust,
- undertaking,
- unilateral trade,
- utility,
- venture,
- vocation,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- wholesale,
- work
Words containing 'Business'
- Busied,
- Businesses,
- Busy,
- Busying,
- do business,
- doing business as,
- Business card,
- Business paper,
- To do one's business,
- To mean business,
- a going business,
- airline business,
- aluminum business,
- big business,
- business activity,
- business address,
- business agent,
- business college,
- business community,
- business concern,
- business cycle,
- business deal,
- business deduction,
- business department,
- business district,
- business editor,
- business enterprise,
- business establishment,
- business executive,
- business expense,
- business firm,
- business index,
- business leader,
- business letter,
- business life,
- business line,
- business loan,
- business lunch,
- business news,
- business office,
- business organisation,
- business organization,
- business people,
- business relation,
- business relationship,
- business school,
- business sector,
- business suit,
- business traveler,
- busy bee,
- computer business,
- discount business,
- family business,
- fashion business,
- illicit business,
- line of business,
- manufacturing business,
- master in business,
- monkey business,
- oil business,
- order of business,
- personal business,
- place of business,
- printing business,
- show business,
- stage business,
- toy business,
- unfinished business,
- business data processing,
- business interruption insurance,
- master in business administration,
- small business administration,
- To make a thing one's business,
- employee-owned business,
- going-out-of-business sale,
- land-office business,
- meat-packing business,
- real-estate business