business.
A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
Meaning & usage
A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
I left my father's business.
A person's occupation, work, or trade.
He is in the motor and insurance businesses.
I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
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.
The volume or amount of commercial trade.
Business has been slow lately.
They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
One's dealings; patronage.
I shall take my business elsewhere.
Private commercial interests taken collectively.
This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
I studied business at Harvard.
A particular situation or activity.
This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
Our principal business here is to get drunk.
Let's get down to business.
Something involving one personally.
That's none of your business.
My work is no business of yours.
Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”).
Hollywood, the entertainment industry.
Prostitution.
A group of ferrets.
Something very good; top quality.
These new phones are the business!
The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
Your ferret left his business all over the floor.
As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.
Disruptive shenanigans.
Matters.
sorry business
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *bisīg Old English bisiġ Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Old English bisiġnes Middle English bisynes English business From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness. Sense 17 (something very good, top quality), possibly derives from "the bee's knees"
Of, to, pertaining to, or used for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.
Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *bisīg Old English bisiġ Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Old English bisiġnes Middle English bisynes English business From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness. Sense 17 (something very good, top quality), possibly derives from "the bee's knees"
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