business
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
business/ˈbɪznəs/
▶noun
- 1 a person's regular occupation or trade.
■ work to be done or matters to be attended to.
- 2 a person's concern.
- 3 commercial activity.
■ a commercial organization.
- 4 informal a matter: the business of trying to find her mother.
- 5 Theatre actions other than dialogue in a play.
- 6 (the business) Brit. informal an excellent person or thing.
– phrases
in business informal able to begin something.
in the business of engaged in or prepared to engage in.
like nobody's business informal extraordinarily.
send someone about their business dated tell someone to go away.
in business informal able to begin something.
in the business of engaged in or prepared to engage in.
like nobody's business informal extraordinarily.
send someone about their business dated tell someone to go away.
'business' also found in these Oxford entries:
administration
- ado
- adventurism
- affair
- agency
- A-list
- answering service
- AOB
- associate
- aviation
- back office
- balance sheet
- bank
- banking
- barber's pole
- baron
- BERR
- big business
- biz
- blind trust
- boom
- bootstrap
- break
- brick
- broking
- B2B
- B2C
- bureau
- business card
- business end
- business park
- business studies
- buyer
- call
- calling card
- canny
- card
- carriage trade
- cash cow
- cash flow
- cashier
- chaebol
- Chamber of Commerce
- change
- city desk
- close
- club class
- colleague
- company
