What is the meaning of business?

noun

• A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it.
  • usage: "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"
  • synonyms: concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation
• The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects.
  • usage: "computers are now widely used in business"
  • synonyms: commercial enterprise, business enterprise
• The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
  • usage: "he's not in my line of business"
  • synonyms: occupation, job, line of work, line
• A rightful concern or responsibility.
  • usage: "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
• An immediate objective.
  • usage: "gossip was the main business of the evening"
• The volume of commercial activity.
  • usage: "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
• Business concerns collectively.
  • usage: "Government and business could not agree"
  • synonyms: business sector
• Customers collectively.
  • usage: "they have an upper class clientele"
  • synonyms: clientele, patronage
• Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect.
  • usage: "his business with the cane was hilarious"
  • synonyms: stage business, byplay