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1. 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"
   - concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation [Brit]
    
2. The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
   "computers are now widely used in business"
   - commercial enterprise, business enterprise
    
3. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   "he's not in my line of business"
   - occupation, job, line of work, line
    
4. A rightful concern or responsibility
   "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
    
5. An immediate objective
   "gossip was the main business of the evening"
    
6. The volume of commercial activity
   "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
    
7. Business concerns collectively
   "Government and business could not agree"
   - business sector
    
8. Customers collectively
   - clientele, patronage
    
9. Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
   "his business with the cane was hilarious"
   - stage business, byplay

Derived forms: businesses

Type of: acting, activity, aim, business activity, commerce, commercial activity, commercialism, concern, enterprise, headache, mercantilism, object, objective, people, performing, playacting, playing, sector, target, vexation, worry

Part of: market, market place, marketplace

Encyclopedia: Business