Definitions for business

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business busi·ness

Spelling: [biz-nis]

IPA: /ˈbɪz nɪs/

Business is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in business (beinsssu).

Definitions for business

noun

1. an occupation, profession, or trade:
2. the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit.
3. a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; profit-seeking enterprise or concern.
4. volume of trade; patronage:
5. a building or site where commercial work is carried on, as a factory, store, or office; place of work:
6. that with which a person is principally and seriously concerned:
7. something with which a person is rightfully concerned:
8. affair; project:
9. an assignment or task; chore:
10. Also called piece of business, stage business. Theater. a movement or gesture, especially a minor one, used by an actor to give expressiveness, drama, detail, etc., to a scene or to help portray a character.
11. excrement: used as a euphemism.

Idioms

1. business is business, profit has precedence over personal considerations:
2. do one's business, (usually of an animal or child) to defecate or urinate:
3. get down to business, to apply oneself to serious matters; concentrate on work:
4. give someone the business, Informal. to make difficulties for someone; treat harshly: to scold severely; give a tongue-lashing to:
5. have no business, to have no right:
6. mean business, to propose to take action or be serious in intent; be in earnest:
7. mind one's own business, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others:

adjective

1. of, noting, or pertaining to business, its organization, or its procedures.
2. containing, suitable for, or welcoming business or commerce:

Origin of business

before 950; Middle English; Old English bisignes. See busy, -ness

Examples for business

"You certainly do know your business, son," said Uncle Peter, fervently.

Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business.

This business attended to, Robert bent his steps to Mr. Paine's office.

Well, if you have any business, you may state it at once, as I am quite busy.

I was a little mystified at how benignly he responded to my questions about his business activities.

This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

The woman in question, meanwhile, has business of her own to take care of—she is reported to be shopping a memoir.

He tried to recall some forgotten detail of the business that might serve to occupy him.

You don't have to be Mr. William Wisenham to do business with him.

You see, there is another Mexico, one that is not so appealing to business but well known to law enforcement.