business
adjective
1. 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."
2. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
3. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
noun
1. 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
Similar word(s): concern
Definition categories: group, enterprise
2. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
- computers are now widely used in business
Definition categories: act, commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
3. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- he's not in my line of business
Similar word(s): job, line, occupation
Definition categories: act, activity
4. a rightful concern or responsibility
- it's none of your business
- mind your own business
Definition categories: thought, concern, headache, vexation, worry
5. an immediate objective
- gossip was the main business of the evening
Definition categories: thought, aim, object, objective, target
6. the volume of commercial activity
- business is good today
- show me where the business was today
Definition categories: act
7. business concerns collectively
- Government and business could not agree
Definition categories: group, sector
8. customers collectively
Similar word(s): clientele, patronage
Definition categories: group, people
9. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
- his business with the cane was hilarious
Similar word(s): byplay
Definition categories: act, acting, performing, playacting, playing
Sentences with business as a noun:
- I was left my father's business.
- He is in the motor business.
- I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
- He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
- We do business all over the world.
- Business has been slow lately.
- They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
- I shall take my business elsewhere.
- This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
- I studied business at Harvard.
- This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
- Our principal business here is to get drunk.
- Let's get down to business.
- That's none of your business.
- If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
- These new phones are the business!
- Your ferret left his business all over the floor.
- As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.