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English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishbusines,busynes,businesse,bisynes, fromOld Englishbisiġnes(“business, busyness”), equivalent tobusy +‎-ness.Doublet ofbusyness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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business (countable anduncountable,pluralbusinesses)

  1. (countable) A specificcommercialenterprise orestablishment.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:enterprise
    I left my father'sbusiness.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page68:
      The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to relatedbusinesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
  2. (countable) A person'soccupation,work, ortrade.
    He is in the motor and insurancebusinesses.
    I'm going to Las Vegas onbusiness.
  3. (uncountable)Commercial,industrial, orprofessional activity.
    He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still inbusiness!
    We dobusiness all over the world.
  4. (uncountable) Thevolume oramount of commercial trade.
    Business has been slow lately.
    They did nearly a million dollars ofbusiness over the long weekend.
    • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, inThe Economist‎[2], volume407, number8837, page74:
      In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming upbusiness, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
  5. (uncountable) One's dealings;patronage.
    I shall take mybusiness elsewhere.
  6. (uncountable) Privatecommercialinterests taken collectively.
    This proposal will satisfy bothbusiness and labor.
    • 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8848:
      Policing the relationship between government andbusiness in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
  7. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
    I studiedbusiness at Harvard.
  8. (countable) A particularsituation oractivity.
    This UFO stuff is a mighty strangebusiness.
    • [1545?],John Heywood,The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton,→OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor,The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […],1908,→OCLC,signature [E.ii.], verso:
      The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuchebeſyneſſe aboute ye.
  9. (countable) Any activity orobjective needing to bedealt with; especially, one of afinancial orlegal matter.
    Our principalbusiness here is to get drunk.
    Let's get down tobusiness.
    • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Chapter I: Of Sense”, inLeviathan‎Wikisource:
      To know the naturall cause of Sense, is not very necessary to thebusiness now in hand; and I have els-where written of the same at large.
  10. (uncountable) Something involving onepersonally.
    That's none of yourbusiness.
  11. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
    If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to newbusiness.
  12. (travel, uncountable)Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines betweenfirst class andcoach.
    • 1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson,Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire‎[3], page154:
      Gates, who always flewbusiness or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,[…]
  14. (acting, theater)Ellipsis ofstage business(“aspect of acting”).
    • 1983, Peter Thomson,Shakespeare's Theatre‎[4],→ISBN, page155:
      Thebusiness with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.
  15. (countable, rare)Thecollective noun for a group offerrets.
    Synonym:fesnyng
    • 2004,Dave Duncan,The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades‎[5],→ISBN, page252:
      I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like abusiness of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage.
  16. (slang, UK) Something verygood;topquality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
    These new phones are thebusiness!
  17. (slang, uncountable) The act ofdefecation, or theexcrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
    Your ferret left hisbusiness all over the floor.
    As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did itsbusiness.
  18. (slang) Disruptiveshenanigans.
    I haven't seen cartoons giving someone thebusiness since the 1990s.
  19. (Australian Aboriginal)Matters.
    sorrybusiness ―a funeral

Derived terms

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Related terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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commercial enterprise or establishment
occupation, work or trade of a person
commercial, industrial or professional activity
volume or amount of commercial trade
patronage
private commercial interests taken collectively
management of commercial enterprises
particular situation or activity
objective or a matter needing to be dealt with
something involving one personally
matters that come before a body for deliberation or action
business class
action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing
collective noun for a group of ferrets
slang: something very good
slang: excrement
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Adjective

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business

  1. Of, to,pertaining to, or used for purposes ofconductingtrade,commerce,governance,advocacy or other professional purposes.
    Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is abusiness phone.
    • 1897, Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee,Sound Currency‎[6], volumes4-5, page cclii:
      They are solelybusiness instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely abusiness relation. His use of them is purely abusiness use.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 10, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was[…] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurryingbusiness people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
    • 1996, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company,American Law Reports: Annotations and Cases‎[7], volume35, page432:
      […] the fact that the injured party came to the insured premises for solelybusiness purposes precluded any reliance on the non-business pursuits exception (§ 1 1 2[b]).
    • 2003, Marvin Snider,Compatibility Breeds Success: How to Manage Your Relationship with Your Business Partner‎[8], page298:
      Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solelybusiness partnerships.
  2. Professional,businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
    • 1889,The Clothier and furnisher‎[9], volume19, page38:
      He is thoroughlybusiness, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
    • 1909,Business Administration: Business Practice‎[10], La Salle Extension University, page77:
      […] and the transaction carried through in a thoroughlybusiness manner.
    • 1927, “Making of America Project”, inHarper's Magazine‎[11], volume154, page502:
      Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughlybusiness men and worked for profit.
    • 2009,Frank Channing Haddock,Business Power: Supreme Business Laws and Maxims that Win Wealth‎[12], page231:
      The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughlybusiness manner.
  3. Supporting business,conducive to theconduct of business.
    • 1867, “Amiens”, inEdmund Hodgson Yates, editor,Tinsley's Magazine‎[13], page430:
      Amiens is a thoroughlybusiness town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8839, page55:
      According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam thebusiness world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

See also

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References

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  1. ^Jespersen, Otto (1909)A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings,London:George Allen & Unwin, published1961,§ 6.63,page202: “business may sometimes still be heard /bizniz/”.

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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business m inan

  1. business

Declension

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Declension ofbusiness (hard masculine inanimate)
singularplural
nominativebusinessbusinessy
genitivebusinessubusinessů
dativebusinessubusinessům
accusativebusinessbusinessy
vocativebusinessebusinessy
locativebusinesse,businessubusinessech
instrumentalbusinessembusinessy

Further reading

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  • “business”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
  • “business”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishbusiness.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪsnɪs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:busi‧ness

Noun

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business m (uncountable)

  1. business (commercial activity or specific commercial enterprise)
    Onder de bezielende leiding van Pierre Vinken is de wetenschappelijke tak uitgegroeid tot de corebusiness van RELX.
    Under the inspiring leadership of Pierre Vinken, the scientific branch has grown into the corebusiness of RELX.

Finnish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbusiness.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbisnes/,[ˈbis̠ne̞s̠]
  • IPA(key): /ˈpisnes/,[ˈpis̠ne̞s̠]
  • IPA(key): /ˈbusinesː/,[ˈbus̠ine̞s̠ː]
  • Rhymes:-isnes
  • Hyphenation(key):busi‧ness

Noun

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business

  1. Alternative spelling ofbisnes

Usage notes

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It may be advisable to avoid using this term in writing.

Declension

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This spelling does not fit nicely into Finnish declension system and is therefore seldom used, and mainly in nominative singular.

Pronunciation "bisnes":

Pronunciation "business":

Synonyms

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  • See Synonyms-section underbisnes

Derived terms

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compounds

Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishbusiness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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business m (pluralbusiness)

  1. business,firm,company
  2. business,affairs

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbusiness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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business m (invariable)

  1. business (commercial enterprise)
    Synonyms:affare,affari,impresa

References

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  1. ^business inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishbusiness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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business m inan

  1. (business, education)Alternative spelling ofbiznes

Declension

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Declension ofbusiness
singularplural
nominativebusinessbusinessy
genitivebusinessubusinessów
dativebusinessowibusinessom
accusativebusinessbusinessy
instrumentalbusinessembusinessami
locativebusinessiebusinessach
vocativebusinessiebusinessy

Further reading

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  • business inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • business in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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FromUnadapted borrowing fromEnglishbusiness.

Noun

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business n (pluralbusinessuri)

  1. business

Declension

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Declension ofbusiness
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativebusinessbusinessulbusinessuribusinessurile
genitive-dativebusinessbusinessuluibusinessuribusinessurilor
vocativebusinessulebusinessurilor

Tatar

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishbusiness.

Noun

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business

  1. business

Declension

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    declension ofbusiness
Nominativebusiness
Genitivebusinessnıñ
Dativebusinessga
Accusativebusinessnı
Locativebusinessda
Ablativebusinessdan

References

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