Business

Word BUSINESS
Character 8
Hyphenation busi ness
Pronunciations /ˈbɪd.nəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Business"

What do we mean by business?

The activity of buying and selling commodities, products, or services. noun

The amount or volume of this activity. 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

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

Specifically Mercantile pursuits collectively; employments requiring knowledge of accounts and financial methods; the occupation of conducting trade or monetary transactions of any kind. noun

A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

A person's occupation, work, or trade.

Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

The volume or amount of commercial trade.

One's dealings; patronage.

Private commercial interests taken collectively.

The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

A particular situation or activity.

Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.

Something involving one personally.

(parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

(travel) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.

The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

Alternate word for discretely acknowlodging a females ability to be involved in sexual activity. Urban Dictionary

1) some action 2) taking a piss 3) art of screwing people for profit 4) selling air, such as trading in stock market 5) pointless meaningless life-consuming spirit-draining activity Urban Dictionary

1) Commercial, industrial, or professional dealings 2) The occupation, work, or trade in which a person is engaged, a specific occupation or pursuit 3) One's rightful or proper concern or interest, something involving one personally Urban Dictionary

1. Can be replaced with any noun or even be added in a sentence after a noun. Usually a substitute for words during a conversation about an inappropriate topic in a public place. Urban Dictionary

An adjective describing something excellent Urban Dictionary

A euphemism for a screwing over Urban Dictionary

What all people and animals do when they answer the call of nature, otherwise it’s a mentality that usually takes the ‘human‘ out of ‘human being’ Urban Dictionary

1. to get things done 2. a place of business Urban Dictionary

Opposite of life. if you are in it, you should most definitely kill yourself. look at the italics. there, i said it. Urban Dictionary

Something people think is theirs, but it really isn't. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Business

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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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He started in again about business, without explaining exactly _what _business he was in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Daniel Brusilovsky (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (1989)

_When to quit business = When they are to quit business_, or _When they ought to quit business_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

_ (Reports, unfinished business, and new business_.) _C_: Is there one fit to join our Wigwam? ❋ Allan Hoben (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)

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, ❋ 1841-1930 Pansy (1885)

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. ❋ Eliezer Edwards (1853)

A QUAKER (says Hood) makes a pleasure of his business, and then, for relaxation, makes a _business_ of his _pleasure_. ❋ Mark Lemon (1839)

Do you suspect that your employees are abusing business work hours to get ¡®personal business¡¯ done? ❋ Unknown (2009)

To say that those who understand economics and business can't comment on the * business* of investigative journalism unless we've done investigative journalism seems pretty silly, doesn't it? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the voter who waits for a carriage to take him to the polls; the man who “doesn’t see what’s the use”; the business man who says “business is business, ” and has no time to waste on voting; the citizen who “will wait to see how the cat jumps, because he doesn’t want to throw his vote away”; the cowardly American who “doesn’t want to antagonize” anybody; the fool who “washes his hands of politics. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Man 1: Yo [check her out]. Man 2: She could [definitly] get the business. Man 3: I gave her [the business] last night! ❋ Anthony/Shane (2003)

1) let's go do some business2) i'm going to do some business behind that bush 3) these corporations [merged] and small-time enterprisers went out of business. 4) Jackie won 4 millions by selling stock just before it crashed while a few unlucky lost their life-time savings by buying it. That's business, kid. (see also gambling) 5) I'm a corporate dumbass. I work my ass off 16 hours a day, I have a luxury car, [deluxe] mansion, posh furniture but [i have no time] to enjoy my life. ❋ SDI (2005)

Its [none of your business] that I'm making a business that will help us [get down to business] about this whole business [issue]. ❋ The Black Plague (2003)

Bro, how did you do on [the math] [quiz] business? That [chic] was all over my business ❋ Ray Kang (2004)

[Dude], that [kickflip] [you just did] was business. ❋ JT Dollar Sign (2003)

[You're fired]. It's not [personal], it's business! ❋ No Fair (2004)

I take my dog out for [a walk] every day every day so it can do its business, or ‘Sorry brother, before [I kill ya], I just want ya to know that it’s only business, [nothing personal]!’. ❋ Space Demon-69M (2019)

1. you need to [take care of business] or your [fish] is gonna die 2. i work in [the family business] ❋ Just Like Campbells...MmMm Good (2003)

a quote about "business": "By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalization for what you do, and you are [Satan's little helpers], OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're [the ruiner] of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. "You know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the [righteous indignation] dollar, that's a big dollar, a lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research, huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scumbags, quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!" - Bill Hicks - ❋ Blank 1-80-too (2008)

[This is] [none of your business]. ❋ Glennicus (2017)

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