Definitions for business
ˈbɪz nɪsbusi·ness

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisationnoun

   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"

2. commercial enterprise, business enterprise, businessnoun

   the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

   "computers are now widely used in business"

3. occupation, business, job, line of work, linenoun

   the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

   "he's not in my line of business"

4. businessnoun

   a rightful concern or responsibility

   "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"

5. businessnoun

   an immediate objective

   "gossip was the main business of the evening"

6. businessnoun

   the volume of commercial activity

   "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"

7. business, business sectornoun

   business concerns collectively

   "Government and business could not agree"

8. clientele, patronage, businessnoun

   customers collectively

   "they have an upper class clientele"

9. business, stage business, byplaynoun

   incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

   "his business with the cane was hilarious"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. businessnoun

   A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

   I was left my father's business.

2. businessnoun

   A person's occupation, work, or trade.

3. businessnoun

   Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

4. businessnoun

   The volume or amount of commercial trade.

5. businessnoun

   One's dealings; patronage.

   I shall take my business elsewhere.

6. businessnoun

   Private commercial interests taken collectively.

   This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.

7. businessnoun

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

   I studied business at Harvard.

8. businessnoun

   A particular situation or activity.

   This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.

9. businessnoun

   An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.

10. businessnoun

    Something involving one personally.

    That's none of your business.

11. businessnoun

    Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

    If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.

12. businessnoun

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

13. businessnoun

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

14. businessnoun

    The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

15. businessnoun

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

    These new phones are the business!

16. businessnoun

    Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

17. businessadjective

    Of, to, pertaining to or utilized 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."

18. businessadjective

    Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.

19. businessadjective

    Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

20. Etymology: From busines, bisynes, from bisignes, equivalent to. Compare also busyness.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Businessnoun

   Etymology: from busy.

   1. Employment; multiplicity of affairs.

   Must business thee from hence remove?
   Oh! that’s the worst disease of love. John Donne.

   2. An affair. In this sense it has the plural.

   Bestow
   Your needful counsel to our businesses,
   Which crave the instant use. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   3. The subject of business; the affair or object that engages the care.

   You are so much the business of our souls, that while you are in sight, we can neither look nor think on any else; there are no eyes for other beauties. Dryden.

   The great business of the senses, being to take notice of what hurts or advantages the body. John Locke.

   4. Serious engagement, in opposition to trivial transactions.

   I never knew one, who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers, that was not guilty of greater himself. Addis.

   He had business enough upon his hands, and was only a poet by accident. Matthew Prior, Preface.

   When diversion is made the business and study of life, though the actions chosen be in themselves innocent, the excess will render them criminal. John Rogers.

   5. Right of action.

   What business has a tortoise among the clouds? Roger L'Estrange.

   6. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.

   Fitness to govern, is a perplexed business; some men, some nations, excel in the one ability, some in the other. Francis Bacon.

   7. Something to be transacted.

   They were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any one. Judges, xviii. 7.

   8. Something required to be done.

   To those people that dwell under or near the equator, this spring would be most pestilent; as for those countries that are nearer the poles, in which number are our own, and the most considerable nations of the world, a perpetual spring will not do their business; they must have longer days, a nearer approach of the sun. Richard Bentley.

   9. To do one’s business. To kill, destroy, or ruin him.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Business

   Business is a song by American rapper Eminem from his fourth studio album The Eminem Show (2002). "Business" was released as the final single from The Eminem Show in July 2003 but it was not released as an official single in the United States.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. business

   A business refers to an organized entity that engages in commercial, industrial, or professional activities with the goal of earning profits, providing goods or services to customers, and/or meeting specific needs or demands within the marketplace. It involves various operations, such as production, marketing, finance, and management, aimed at achieving business objectives while ensuring sustainability and growth.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Businessnoun

   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

2. Businessnoun

   any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession

3. Businessnoun

   financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions

4. Businessnoun

   that which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission

5. Businessnoun

   affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words

6. Businessnoun

   the position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal

7. Businessnoun

   care; anxiety; diligence

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Business

   Business contains types related to business such as 'Company', 'Industry' and 'Retail Location'. Note, this category doesn't include types specific to Finance (stock exchange and currency) Still to do: populate example company types capture more companies

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Business

   biz′nes, 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.

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. business

   Looking a payroll in the eye and kiting checks. 2. A method of reducing a landlady to her lowest terms.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. business

   A group of united people who work together with a perfect, accurate, simple and specific budget, goals, legislation, objectives, plans, processes, procedures, rules, strategies, structures, systems, treaties, vision, identical equal pay, sense of solidarity and cohesion. This group employs a moderate amount of employees. All profit earned is used to reinvest in the business where just and fair or contribute to the teams chosen local, regional, national, european or international SDG.

   The business is easy, simple, united and focused on the shared vision.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 7, 2020  

2. ---

   business

   The activity of providing commodities, goods, products or services.

   To run your own business is a real gift that many chose to do as it gives them the freedom to create according to their sense of ethics and morals.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 19, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Acting
   • Activity
   • Aim
   • Business
   • Business Activity
   • Commerce
   • Concern
   • Enterprise
   • People
   • Sector

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'business' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #229

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'business' in Written Corpus Frequency: #412

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'business' in Nouns Frequency: #41

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How to pronounce business?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say business in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of business in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of business in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of business in a Sentence

1. Samir Azizi:

   Digital marketing for Samir Azizi useful digital marketing promoting tip for business. But for local businesses, it can be even more essential.

2. Chief Executive Michael Ward:

   The IPO will provide the platform for the continued success of the business, as well as accelerate its growth opportunities and facilitate value creation through an increased ability to acquire, incentivise, differentiate and where sensible diversify.

3. Lloyd Lederman:

   When Covid came, actually Steves Deli were getting busy. People needed food, everybody was closed, but with the curfews in New York City... and no business, lunch, catering, I'm doing an hour or two of business a night just for dinner. The store was killing me. We're all taking turns getting sick from this virus.

4. Chip Roy:

   The CDC has no business trying to predict future 'thought crimes' nor, as they've done in the past, leverage their power to collude with big tech companies against the American people.

5. Federico Rossi:

   Yachts are a conservative business. People generally want the same boat : classic, millennials are used to going outside the general boundaries. For us, it's a great opportunity -- shipyards that can take this [ demographic ] into consideration are only shipyards that build full custom ships.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=business
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Business
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=business
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/business
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=business
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=business
9. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=business
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=business