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What's The Definition Of Business?
[n] incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious"
[n] the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [n] the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [n] the volume of business activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" [n] a rightful concern or responsibility; used in such phrases as"it's none of your business" or"mind your own business" [n] an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening" [n] business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [n] 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" [n] customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" Synonyms | Synonyms for Business: business concern | business enterprise | business organisation | business organization | business sector | byplay | clientele | commercial enterprise | concern | job | line | line of work | occupation | patronage | stage business Related Terms | Find terms related to Business: 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 | 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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 See Also | accountancy | accounting | acting | activity | advertising | agency | agribusiness | agriculture | 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shipbuilder | shipping | situation | sport | spot | storage | target | tourism | touristry | trade | transport | transportation | treadmill | underperformer | venture | vexation | vocation | work | worry Business In Webster's Dictionary \Busi"ness\, n.; pl. {Businesses}. [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.
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's
business? --Luke ii. 49.
2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for
livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a
profession. ``The business of instruction.'' --Prescott.
3. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in
general; mercantile transactions.
It seldom happens that men of a studious turn
acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge
of business. --Bp. Popteus.
4. That which one has to do or should do; special service,
duty, or mission.
The daughter of the King of France, On serious
business, craving quick despatch, Importunes
personal conference. --Shak.
What business has the tortoise among the clouds?
--L'Estrange.
5. Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense,
and modified by the connected words.
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of
good women. --Shak.
Bestow Your needful counsel to our business. --Shak.
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.
7. Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{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.]
Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement;
employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession;
vocation; office; duty.
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