Noun
- (n.) business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation (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"
- (n.) commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects) "computers are now widely used in business"
- (n.) occupation, business, job, line of work, line (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money) "he's not in my line of business"
- (n.) business (a rightful concern or responsibility) "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
- (n.) business (an immediate objective) "gossip was the main business of the evening"
- (n.) business (the volume of commercial activity) "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
- (n.) business, business sector (business concerns collectively) "Government and business could not agree"
- (n.) clientele, patronage, business (customers collectively) "they have an upper class clientele"
- (n.) business, stage business, byplay (incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect) "his business with the cane was hilarious"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
| APA | WordNet. (2010). business. Retrieved May 18, 2013, from http://smartdefine.org/business/definitions/1191004 |
| Chicago | WordNet. 2010. "business" http://smartdefine.org/business/definitions/1191004 (accessed May 18, 2013). |
| Harvard | WordNet 2010, business, Smart Define, viewed 18 May, 2013, <http://smartdefine.org/business/definitions/1191004>. |
| MLA | WordNet. "business" 23 October 2010. Web. 18 May 2013. <http://smartdefine.org/business/definitions/1191004> |