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A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.countable
- I left my father's business.
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A person's occupation, work, or trade.countable
- He is in the motor and insurance businesses.
- I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
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Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.uncountable
- He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
- We do business all over the world.
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The volume or amount of commercial trade.uncountable
- Business has been slow lately.
- They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
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One's dealings; patronage.uncountable
- I shall take my business elsewhere.
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Private commercial interests taken collectively.uncountable
- This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
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The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.uncountable
- I studied business at Harvard.
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A particular situation or activity.countable
- This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
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Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.countable
- Our principal business here is to get drunk.
- Let's get down to business.
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Something involving one personally.uncountable
- That's none of your business.
- My work is no business of yours.
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Of, to, pertaining to, or used 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.
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Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
- He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
- […] and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.
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Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
- Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.