Business : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Business	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Business
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
business n 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" Synonym(s): business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" Synonym(s): commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" Synonym(s): occupation, business, job, line of work, line a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business" an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening" the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" Synonym(s): business, business sector customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" Synonym(s): clientele, patronage, business incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" Synonym(s): business, stage business, byplay
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Business \Busi"ness\, n.; pl. {Businesses}. [From {Busy}.] 1. That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? --Luke ii. 49. 2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. [bd]The business of instruction.[b8] --Prescott. 3. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. --Bp. Popteus. 4. That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission. The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference. --Shak. What business has the tortoise among the clouds? --L'Estrange. 5. Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words. It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women. --Shak. Bestow Your needful counsel to our business. --Shak. 6. (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley. {To make (a thing) one's business}, to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.] {To mean business}, to be earnest. [Colloq.] Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement; employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession; vocation; office; duty.