business

Plural

businesses

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

   • I left my father's business.
   • The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.

2. 2.A person's occupation, work, or trade.

   • I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
   • He is in the motor and insurance businesses.

3. 3.Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

   • We do business all over the world.
   • He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!

4. 4.The volume or amount of commercial trade.

   • They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
   • Business has been slow lately.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.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.
   • Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solely business partnerships.
   • They are solely business instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely a business relation. His use of them is purely a business use.

2. 2.Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.

   • He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
   • The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughly business manner.
   • Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughly business men and worked for profit.

3. 3.Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

   • Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Uncommon

Literature

Uncommon

Synonyms

• concern

Word family

• businessman