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busi·ness       (bĭz'nĭs)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. The occupation, work, or trade in which a person is engaged: the wholesale food business.
    2. A specific occupation or pursuit: the best designer in the business.
    3. One's rightful or proper concern or interest: "The business of America is business" (Calvin Coolidge).
    4. Something involving one personally: It's none of my business.
  2. Commercial, industrial, or professional dealings: new systems now being used in business.
  3. A commercial enterprise or establishment: bought his uncle's business.
  4. Volume or amount of commercial trade: Business had fallen off.
  5. Commercial dealings; patronage: took her business to a trustworthy salesperson.
    1. One's rightful or proper concern or interest: "The business of America is business" (Calvin Coolidge).
    2. Something involving one personally: It's none of my business.
  7. Serious work or endeavor: got right down to business.
  8. An affair or matter: "We will proceed no further in this business" (Shakespeare).
  9. An incidental action performed by an actor on the stage to fill a pause between lines or to provide interesting detail.
  10. Informal Verbal abuse; scolding: gave me the business for being late.
  11. Obsolete The condition of being busy.


[Middle English businesse, from bisi, busy; see busy.]

Synonyms: These nouns apply to forms of activity that have the objective of supplying commodities. Business pertains broadly to commercial, financial, and industrial activity: decided to go into the oil business.
Industry entails the production and manufacture of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale: the computer industry.
Commerce and trade refer to the exchange and distribution of goods or commodities: laws regulating interstate commerce; involved in the domestic fur trade.
Traffic pertains in particular to businesses engaged in the transportation of goods or passengers: renovated the docks to attract shipping traffic.
The word may also suggest illegal trade: discovered a brisk traffic in stolen goods. See Also Synonyms at affair.

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