business

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English

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

business (plural businesses or -)

  1. Template:countable A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
    I was left my father's business.
  2. Template:countable A person's occupation, work, or trade.
    He is in the motor business.
    I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
  3. Template:uncountable Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
    He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
    We do business all over the world.
  4. Template:uncountable The volume or amount of commercial trade.
    Business has been slow lately.
  5. Template:uncountable One's dealings; patronage.
    I shall take my business elsewhere.
  6. Template:uncountable Private commercial interests taken collectively.
    This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
  7. Template:uncountable The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
    I studied business at Harvard.
  8. Template:countable A particular situation or activity.
    This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
  9. Template:countable An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
    Our principal business here is to get drunk.
    Let's get down to business.
  10. Template:uncountable Something involving one personally.
    That's none of your business.
  11. Template:uncountable Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
    If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
  12. Template:travel Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
  13. Template:acting Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
  14. Template:countable The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
  15. Template:uncountable Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
    These new phones are the business!
  16. Template:slang Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
    Your ferret left his business all over the floor.

Derived terms

Related terms

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Translations

Adjective

business (not comparable)

  1. Of, or related to business
    She is very fluent with business jargon.

See also

Italian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] English

Noun

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  1. business (commercial enterprise)

Tatar

Etymology

Late loanword from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English.

Noun

business

  1. business

Declension

    declension of business
Nominative business
Genitive businessnıñ
Dative businessga
Accusative businessnı
Locative businessda
Ablative businessdan

References

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