Meaning of business | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
   countable
2. company
3. A person's occupation, work, or trade.
   countable
4. practical; alert and prompt. a businesslike approach to the problem; She is very businesslike. saaklik مُنَظَّم، بِطَريقَةٍ عَمَليَّه делови prático věcný, praktický, výkonný geschäftsmäßig forretningsagtig πρακτικός, μεθοδικόςformal, profesional asjalik کاری؛ جدی و با پشتکار asiallinen sérieux, professionnelענייני कामकाजी poslovan gyakorlatias serius, cekatan skipulegur, markviss efficiente, pratico 実務的な 실무적인 dalykiškas lietišķs; praktisks serius zakelijkforretningsmessig, effektiv, systemat...
5. enterprise, undertaking
6. Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
   uncountable
7. a person who makes a living from some form of trade or commerce, not from one of the professions. sakeman, sakevrou رَجُل أعْمال бизнесмен comerciante obchodník, podnikatel der/die Geschäftsmann/-frau forretningsmand επιχειρηματίαςhombre de negocios, empresario; mujer de negocios, empresaria ärimees, ärinaine کاسب؛ تاجر liikemies homme/femme d'affaires אִיש עֲסָקִים व्यापारी poslovan čovjek üzletember usahawan kaupsÿslumaður/-kona uomo/donna d'affari 実業家 실업가 komersantas, biznierius biznesmeni...
8. task
9. The volume or amount of commercial trade.
   uncountable
10. in the process of doing business or something official. met/op besigheid في مُهِمَّه / شُغْل по работа em serviço v obchodní záležitosti, služebně geschäftlich i forretningsøjemed σε δουλειές en viaje de negocios; de servicio äriasjus مشغول کار و کسب بودن työasialla pour affaires בְּעִנְייָנֵי עֲסָקִים काम पर poslovanje hivatalosan, üzleti úton urusan resmi í viðskiptaerindum per affari 仕事で 볼일이 있어, 업무로 su reikalais darīšanās berurus niaga voor zaken på forretningsoppdrag, på forretningsreise,...
11. One's dealings; patronage.
    uncountable
12. The activity of buying and selling commodities, products, or services: new systems now being used in business.
13. Private commercial interests taken collectively.
    uncountable
14. The amount or volume of this activity: Business was off all day.
15. The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
    uncountable
16. The variety of this activity in which a person is engaged: the wholesale food business.
17. A particular situation or activity.
    countable
18. A commercial enterprise or establishment: bought his uncle's construction business.
19. Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
    countable
20. Commercial dealings; patronage: took her business to a trustworthy salesperson.
21. Something involving one personally.
    uncountable
22. One's rightful or proper concern or interest: "The business of America is business" (Calvin Coolidge).
23. Serious work or endeavor: got right down to business.
24. Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
    uncountable
25. Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
    uncountable
26. Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
27. Hollywood, the entertainment industry.
    countable, informal, uncountable
28. Prostitution.
    countable, slang, uncountable
29. The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
    countable, rare
30. Something very good; top quality.
    British, countable, slang, uncountable
31. The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
    slang, uncountable
32. Disruptive shenanigans.
    countable, slang, uncountable
33. Matters.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I left my father's business.”

“The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.”

“He is in the motor and insurance businesses.”

“I'm going to Las Vegas on business.”

“He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!”

“We do business all over the world.”

“Business has been slow lately.”

“They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.”

“In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.”

“I shall take my business elsewhere.”

“This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.”

“Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.”

“I studied business at Harvard.”

“This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.”

“The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.”

“Our principal business here is to get drunk.”

“Let's get down to business.”

“To know the naturall cause of Sense, is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have els-where written of the same at large.”

“That's none of your business.”

“My work is no business of yours.”

“If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.”

“Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,[…]”

“The business with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.”

“I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage.”

“These new phones are the business!”

“Your ferret left his business all over the floor.”

“As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.”

“I haven't seen cartoons giving someone the business since the 1990s.”

“sorry business”

a funeral

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