Word Finder - business

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A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

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I was left my father's business.

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A person's occupation, work, or trade.

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He is in the motor and insurance businesses.

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Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

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He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!

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The volume or amount of commercial trade.

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Business has been slow lately.

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One's dealings; patronage.

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I shall take my business elsewhere.

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Private commercial interests taken collectively.

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This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.

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The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

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I studied business at Harvard.

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A particular situation or activity.

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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.

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Let's get down to business.

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Something involving one personally.

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That's none of your business.

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(parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

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If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.

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(travel) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

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Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.

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The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

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Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

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These new phones are the business!

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Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

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As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.

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Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

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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.

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Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

I mean, I could still have my business in town.

She'd need that time to settle her business and pack her things.

In business transactions Alex was frugal with his money, but when it came to his family, he was generous.

I have to take care of some... business and then I'll meet you there.

It was none of her business and she certainly didn't want to hurt Mary's feelings.

It's none of my business how you run this outfit.

I must be on my way, as business calls.

Jacquot's business was to sell charcoal to the rich people in the city.

Apparently the horse knew the rider meant business, because it didn't act up again.

It's a bad business, eh?

Our business is to do our duty, to fight and not to think!

This became a difficult task, as her publishers in Philadelphia had retired from business many years ago; however, it was eventually discovered that her residence is at Wilmington, Delaware, and copies of the second edition of the book, 1889, were obtained from her.

Was she the business he had to take care of?

It's rather stupid business, I think.

Men who did not know when their visit had terminated, though I went about my business again, answering them from greater and greater remoteness.

I'm here on business and have brought my girls with me.

It's the business of us soldiers.

He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.

What the Giddons did on their own land was their business, yet it left her feeling uncomfortable.

My wife thought he should go or Howie should simply kiss his mother's hand, give an excuse of pressing business, and come back east.

As a general on duty on Kutuzov's staff, he applied himself to business with zeal and perseverance and surprised Kutuzov by his willingness and accuracy in work.

This simple thought could not occur to the doctors (as it cannot occur to a wizard that he is unable to work his charms) because the business of their lives was to cure, and they received money for it and had spent the best years of their lives on that business.

She included among her enemies the creditors and all who had business dealings with her father, and always at the thought of enemies and those who hated her she remembered Anatole who had done her so much harm--and though he did not hate her she gladly prayed for him as for an enemy.

I knew when we started this business it was like I was in the backseat of Thelma and Louise's car hurtling toward a cliff edge.

It's none of your business.

My dad brought it home from a business trip.

Electronic transfers mean the money of a government, business, or individual might be anywhere at any time.

Betsy called in one tip from California on a business trip.

I should not have come, but I have business, he said coldly.

Millions will pour forth from there"--he pointed to the merchants' hall--"but our business is to supply men and not spare ourselves...

The simple menu is great for travelers and business people on the go.

He wasn't opposed to having it, but he insisted on sharing it in fair business - and with his wife, more or less.

At any rate, it was none of her business.

She was attached to the arm of good-looking man wearing a business suit.

The town was fairly large with a dozen or so business buildings on each side of the street but, as I said, most were closed.

I asked her, as if it was business as usual.

The going back business; finding missing kids; sometimes seeing them hurt.

So, we do a good business.

You'll have to develop some skill in reading people if you want to make this a business.

Even in civilized corporate offices, professionals in business attire say their work tasks place them "down in the trenches" or that a certain "campaign" requires "guerrilla" marketing.

They were very kind; but I could not help feeling that they spoke more from a business than a humanitarian point of view.

I see these men every day go about their business with more or less courage and content, doing more even than they suspect, and perchance better employed than they could have consciously devised.

I helped you, but all the same I must tell you the truth; it is a dangerous business, and if you think about it--a stupid business.

There are over five-hundred guest rooms and seventy suites, as well as three ballrooms, a fitness center, lap pool, sauna and business center.

Anyway, it isn't any of her business.

In other words, it's none of my business.

It wasn't that it was none of her business.

You know how stubborn you are about not doing business with dishonest people.

He was certainly mysterious, even a little eccentric, but... what did she know about the business?

None of this was any of Giddon's business.