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Business

noun

(pl. businesses)

A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it. Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern. "A small mom-and-pop business" , "A racially integrated business concern"

The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects. Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise.

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money. Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation.

A rightful concern or responsibility. "Mind your own business"

An immediate objective.

The volume of commercial activity. "Show me where the business was today"

Business concerns collectively. Synonym: business sector.

Customers collectively. Synonyms: clientele, patronage.

Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect. Synonyms: byplay, stage business.

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— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... the general fault of the critics, Lady Carbury,—at least not as far as I have observed the business. It is incapacity. In what little I have done in the matter, that is the sin which I have striven to conquer. When we want shoes we go to a professed shoemaker; but for criticism we have certainly not gone to professed critics. I think that ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

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