Business

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  • noun. The activity of buying and selling commodities, products, or services.
  • noun. The amount or volume of this activity.
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  • noun. The variety of this activity in which a person is engaged.
  • noun. A specific occupation or pursuit.
  • noun. A commercial enterprise or establishment.
  • noun. Commercial dealings; patronage.
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  • noun. One's rightful or proper concern or interest.
  • noun. Something involving one personally.
  • noun. Serious work or endeavor.
  • noun. An affair or matter.
  • noun. An incidental action performed by an actor on the stage to fill a pause between lines or to provide interesting detail.
  • noun. Strong verbal criticism; scolding.
  • noun. Urination or defecation.
  • noun. The condition of being busy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being busy or actively employed; diligence; pains.
  • noun. Care; anxiety; solicitude; worry.
  • noun. A matter or affair that engages a person's attention or requires his care; an affair receiving or requiring attention; specifically, that which busies or occupies one's time, attention, and labor as his chief concern; that which one does for a livelihood; occupation; employment: as, his business was that of a merchant; to carry on the business of agriculture.
  • noun. Specifically Mercantile pursuits collectively; employments requiring knowledge of accounts and financial methods; the occupation of conducting trade or monetary transactions of any kind.
  • noun. That which is undertaken as a duty or of chief importance, or is set up as a principal purpose or aim.
  • noun. Concern; right of action or interposition: as, what business has a man with the disputes of others?
  • noun. Affair; point; matter.
  • noun. Theat., such preconcerted movements and actions on the stage as going up, crossing over, taking a chair, poking a fire, toying with anything, etc., designed to fill up the action of the play or character, and heighten its effect.
  • noun. To ease one's self at stool.
  • Relating to, connected with, or engaged in business, traffic, trade, etc.: as, business habits; business hours; business men.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.
  • noun. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
  • noun. That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
  • noun. Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
  • noun. The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
  • noun. Care; anxiety; diligence.
  • noun. to ruin one.
  • noun. to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty.
  • noun. to be earnest.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
  • noun. A person's occupation, work, or trade.
  • noun. Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
  • noun. The volume or amount of commercial trade.
  • noun. One's dealings; patronage.
  • noun. Private commercial interests taken collectively.
  • noun. The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
  • noun. A particular situation or activity.
  • noun. An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
  • noun. Something involving one personally.
  • noun. Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
  • noun. Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
  • noun. Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
  • noun. The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
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