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English to English noun
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a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it |  | Example: he bought his brother's business
a small mom-and-pop business
a racially integrated business concern
source: wordnet30
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the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | | Example: computers are now widely used in business
source: wordnet30
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the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | | Example: he's not in my line of business
source: wordnet30
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a rightful concern or responsibility | | Example: it's none of your business
mind your own business
source: wordnet30
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an immediate objective | | Example: gossip was the main business of the evening
source: wordnet30
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the volume of commercial activity | | Example: business is good today
show me where the business was today
source: wordnet30
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business concerns collectively | | Example: Government and business could not agree
source: wordnet30
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customers collectively | | Example: they have an upper class clientele
source: wordnet30
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incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | | Example: his business with the cane was hilarious
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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