Business

Definitions of "business"

• The activity of buying and selling commodities, products, or services. noun
• The amount or volume of this activity. noun
• 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. noun
• 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. 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

The word "business" in example sentences

Follow the latest business news, comment and analysis on Twitter jilltreanor: Quite astonishing that the banks are not compelled to provide details of their own lending commitments under Project Merlin #business about 13 hours, 46 minutes ago jilltreanor: There is nothing in Project Merlin that appears to "force" banks to lend.. [Letters: Ideas, patents and the yellow digger]

Follow the latest business news, comment and analysis on Twitter jilltreanor: Quite astonishing that the banks are not compelled to provide details of their own lending commitments under Project Merlin #business about 13 hours, 46 minutes ago jilltreanor: There is nothing in Project Merlin that appears to "force" banks to lend.. [Letters: We must end our dependence on oil]

Follow the latest business news, comment and analysis on Twitter jilltreanor: Quite astonishing that the banks are not compelled to provide details of their own lending commitments under Project Merlin #business about 13 hours, 46 minutes ago jilltreanor: There is nothing in Project Merlin that appears to "force" banks to lend.. [Cartoon: Steve Bell on the 'big society bank']

He started in again about business, without explaining exactly _what _business he was in.. [The Body Ricardo]

I understand that companies that have losing business models often find it more profitable to invest outside of their business**, but GM seems to have found the only investment on the planet worse than their own stock.. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What the Hell Where They Thinking?]

The ­secrets of business, he said, were to be found in ­history, literature and the classic ruminations on life and existence, not in the half-baked ramblings of ­business academics, consultants and “gurus.”. [Bogus Theories, Bad for Business]

Virgil Thomson wrote crushingly of "Porgy and Bess" that "it is clear, by now, that Gershwin hasn't learned the business of being a serious composer, which one has ­always gathered to be the ­business he wanted to learn," though Thomson spoke more kindly of him off the record.. [Rhapsody Imbued]

While it is true that existing solutions are probably sufficient for the casual user (although we are still faster, more reliable and have bluetooth support) – when you need to use a mobile business card for * business*, you cannot, must not and will not use a solution that is unreliable across platforms, gimmicky or iPhone-only.. [BeamME Pro Update Hits the App Store]

He started in again about business, without explaining exactly _what _business he was in.. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

QUOTATION: We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively—that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business…. the two are interdependent.. [Benjamin Franklin Fairless (1890-1962)]

_When to quit business = When they are to quit business_, or _When they ought to quit business_.. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition]

_ (Reports, unfinished business, and new business_.) _C_: Is there one fit to join our Wigwam?. [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work]

For men’s eyes are upon the business, and not upon the persons; or if upon the persons, it is for the business’ sake, as fittest, and not for flags and pedigree.. [XIV. Of Nobility]

Mickey begged him 'to be square' and told him that 'was not business' -- '_not business_,' mind you, but the big fellow jeered at him and was starting away.. [Michael O'Halloran]

I did not suppose I was expected to turn spy, and call to account every drop of wine that chances to be used in my buildings; it would be such utterly new business to me that I feel certain of a failure, and _we business_ men,. [Three People]

In the course of the forty or fifty years during which Mr. Gillott was in business, many other manufactories of steel pens were established, at some of which, probably, greater _numbers_ of pens were produced than at his own, but the _amount of business_ transacted was in no case, probably, so great.. [Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men]