Business
[ˈbɪznəs] or [ˈbɪznɪs]
Definition
(noun.) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; 'his business with the cane was hilarious'.
(noun.) the volume of commercial activity; 'business is good today'; 'show me where the business was today'.
(noun.) a rightful concern or responsibility; 'it's none of your business'; 'mind your own business'.
(noun.) an immediate objective; 'gossip was the main business of the evening'.
(noun.) business concerns collectively; 'Government and business could not agree'.
(noun.) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; 'he bought his brother's business'; 'a small mom-and-pop business'; 'a racially integrated business concern'.
Typed by Jeanette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.
(n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.
(n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
(n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
(n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
(n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
(n.) Care; anxiety; diligence.
Edited by Lancelot
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Calling, employment, occupation, pursuit, vocation, profession, craft, AVOCATION, walk of life.[2]. Trade, commerce, traffic, dealing.[3]. Concern, matter, affair, transaction.[4]. Office, duty, function.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling, office,employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concern
ANT:Stagnation, leisure, inactivity
Inputed by Boris
Definition
n. employment: engagment: trade profession or occupation: one's concerns or affairs: a matter or affair: (theat.) action as distinguished from dialogue.—adj. Bus′iness-like methodical systematic practical.—Do the business for to settle make an end of: to ruin.—Genteel business (theat.) such parts as require good dressing.—Make it one's business to undertake to accomplish something or see it done; Mean business to be in earnest; Mind one's own business to confine one's self to one's own affairs.—Send about one's business to dismiss promptly.
Typed by Eugenia
Examples
- Especially on that turning business. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I demand again to know from thee thy business with Brian de Bois-Guilbert? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He had arranged to stop at Frizinghall that night, having occasion to consult his father on business. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! Jane Austen. Emma.
- My father brought me to the door, not a minute ago, but unfortunately he was not told that you were here, and he has gone away on some business. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Let us forget what has passed, and go straight on with this business. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was an unaccountable business. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- And that money-winning business is really a blot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, to turn up her nose at you! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You know, he said, I can't make head or tail out of this business. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some most important business. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To all the purposes of politics it is settled, for instance, that the trust will never be unscrambled into small competing businesses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Few businesses have had a more spectacular rise than the motion-picture industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In popular usage we apply it only to corrupting businesses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When I am above the world, I shall ignore all businesses. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Della