'Businesses' definitions:
Definition of 'Businesses'
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]
Words containing 'Businesses'
- Busied,
- Business,
- 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