business

Noun

• incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
  • his business with the cane was hilarious
    

• customers collectively
  • they have an upper class clientele
    

• business concerns collectively
  • Government and business could not agree
    

• the volume of commercial activity
  • business is good today
    
  • show me where the business was today
    

• an immediate objective
  • gossip was the main business of the evening
    

• a rightful concern or responsibility
  • it's none of your business
    
  • mind your own business
    

• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
  • he's not in my line of business
    

• the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
  • computers are now widely used in business
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stage business , byplay , clientele , patronage , business sector , occupation , job , line of work , line , commercial enterprise , business enterprise , concern , business concern , business organization , business organisation