business
/'biznis/ Cách viết khác : (biz) /biz/ (busyness) /'bizinis/
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Definition
- Noun:
- Commercial activity: The activity of buying, selling, or providing goods and services for money.
- A company or enterprise: An organization or economic system engaged in commercial, industrial, or professional activities.
- One's occupation or profession: The work a person does to earn a living; a person's regular trade or profession.
- A matter or affair: A particular situation, event, or series of actions.
- One's rightful concern or responsibility: Something that is a person's proper area of interest or duty.
- Serious activity or purpose: The quality of being earnest or having a serious intent.
Examples of Usage
- Commercial activity:
- She studied business at university.
- Business has been slow this quarter.
- A company or enterprise:
- He runs a small catering business.
- She decided to sell the family business.
- One's occupation or profession:
- My business is teaching English.
- What line of business are you in?
- A matter or affair:
- The whole business was very confusing.
- Let's settle this business quickly.
- One's rightful concern or responsibility:
- It's not your business what I do.
- Mind your own business.
- Serious activity or purpose:
- When he speaks, you can tell he means business.
Advanced Usage
- "to get down to business": to start dealing with the important matters or tasks.
- After the introductions, we got down to business.
- "to have no business doing something": to have no right or reason to do something.
- You have no business reading my private letters.
- "the business end of something": the part of a tool or object that performs its main function, often implying danger or seriousness.
- Be careful with the business end of that knife.
Variants and Related Words
- Businesslike (adj): efficient, practical, and systematic.
- She has a very businesslike approach to her work.
- Businessperson (n): a person engaged in commercial or industrial business.
- He is a successful businessperson.
- Busyness (n): the state of having a great deal to do. (Note: This is a different word from 'business', though it sounds similar).
- The busyness of the holiday season is exhausting.
Synonyms
- Commerce: the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
- Trade: the action of buying and selling goods and services.
- Affair: an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to.
- Occupation: a job or profession.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Go out of business: to stop operating as a company because of financial failure.
- Many small shops went out of business during the recession.
- Go about one's business: to do one's normal activities or duties.
- Despite the noise, the workers went about their business.
Related Idioms
- Business as usual: a situation where everything continues normally, often despite difficulties.
- After the fire drill, it was business as usual in the office.
- Mean business: to be serious and determined about something.
- The new manager means business about improving sales.
- Mind your own business: used to tell someone in a rude way that you do not want them to ask about something private.
- When I asked where he was going, he told me to mind my own 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