business (English)

Etymology

From - busines|lang=enm, - lang=enm, from - bisignes|bisiġnes|business, busyness|lang=ang, equivalent to - ness
  • Engelska - busyness
  • .

    Pronunciation

  • - /ˈbɪzˌnɪs/, - /"bIznIs/
  • en-us-business.ogg
  • - ness
  • Noun

    es|-

    A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

  • I was left my father's business.
  • A person's occupation, work, or trade.

  • He is in the motor business.
  • I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
  • commercial|Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

  • He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
  • We do business all over the world.
  • The volume or amount of commercial trade.

  • Business has been slow lately.
  • They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
  • One's dealings; patronage.

  • I shall take my business elsewhere.
  • Private commercial interests taken collectively.

  • This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
  • The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

  • I studied business at Harvard.
  • A particular situation or activity.

  • This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
  • An objective or a matter needing to be deal_with|dealt_with.

  • Our principal business here is to get drunk.
  • Let's get down to business.
  • Something involving one personally.

  • That's none of your business.
  • parliamentary procedure

    Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

  • If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
  • uncountable

    business_class|Business_class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first_class and coach.

    * {{quote-book|1992|James Wallace and Jim Erickson|Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire|page=154|url=

    |passage=Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft, }}

    Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.

    * {{quote-book|1983|Peter Thomson|Shakespeare's Theatre|page=155|url=

    |passage= The business with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.}}

    rare

    The collective_noun for a group of ferrets.

    * {{quote-book|2004|w:Dave_Duncan_(writer)|Dave_Duncan|The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades|page=252|url=

    |passage=I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage. }}

    - British Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the_bee's_knees")

  • ''These new phones are the business!
  • uncountable

    excrement|Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

  • Your ferret left his business all over the floor.
  • As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.
  • Derived terms

    Terms derived from business (noun)

  • agribusiness
  • big_business
  • business_as_usual
  • business_analyst
  • business_architect
  • business_before_pleasure
  • business_card
  • business_class
  • business_day
  • business_deal
  • business_economics
  • business_end
  • business_English
  • business_ethics
  • business_failure
  • business_girl
  • business_intelligence
  • business_lunch
  • business_model
  • business_name
  • business_plan
  • business_practice
  • business_record
  • business_risk
  • business_trip
  • business_trust
  • business_unit
  • business_venture
  • businesslike
  • businessman
  • businessperson
  • businesswoman
  • business-to-business
  • do_business
  • e-business
  • family_business
  • funny_business
  • get_down_to_business
  • give_someone_the_business
  • line_of_business
  • mean_business
  • mind_one's_own_business
  • monkey_business
  • order_of_business
  • out_of_business
  • personal_business
  • place_of_business
  • show_business
  • small_business
  • take_care_of_business
  • unfinished_business
  • Translations

    commercial enterprise or establishment

  • Chinese:
  • : Mandarin - 事業|sc=Hani, - 事业|tr=shìyè|sc=Hani, - 企業|sc=Hani, - 企业|tr=qǐyè|sc=Hani
  • Kroatiska - firma
  • , poduzeće
  • Tjeckiska - podnik
  • Danska - forretning
  • Holländska - bedrijf
  • , zaak, onderneming
  • Finska - liike
  • , yritys
  • Franska - entreprise
  • Tyska - Geschäft
  • , Unternehmen
  • Hebrew: עסק ('eseq)

    id

  • Japanska - 事業
  • , 企業
  • Koreanska - 사업
  • Koreanska - 기업
  • Koreanska - 업무
  • Makedonska - дејност
  • Persiska - بنگاه تجاری
  • , تجارتخانه
  • Portugisiska - negócio
  • Ryska - предприятие
  • , бизнес
  • Swahili - biashara
  • Tagalog - tl|negosyo
  • occupation, work or trade of a person

  • Arabic - (ʕámal), - (tajára), - (mašrúʕ)
  • Catalan: negoci
  • Chinese:
  • : Mandarin - 商業|sc=Hani, - 商业|tr=shāngyè|sc=Hani
  • Tjeckiska - obchod
  • Danska - branche
  • Dutch: zaken

    p

    , zakenleven
  • Estonian: äri
  • Finska - ammatti
  • - fi|työ - fi|ala

    trade

  • Franska - affaire
  • Hebrew: עסקים ('asaqym)

    p

  • Ungerska - üzlet
  • Indonesian: bisnis, urus|urusan
  • Interlingua: negotios , affaires
  • Japanska - ビジネス
  • , 業務, 商売
  • Makedonska - занимање
  • , работа
  • Maltese: negozjant , negozjanta
  • Persiska - پیشه
  • , کار
  • Polska - zajęcie
  • Portugisiska - negócios
  • , ramo, trabalho
  • Rumänska - afacere
  • Ryska - занятие
  • , работа
  • Spanska - negocio
  • Swahili - biashara
  • Telugu: వ్యాపారము
  • Thai:

    กงกาง

    (gong gaang)
  • commercial, industrial or professional activity

  • Danska - forretning
  • Holländska - vak
  • Esperanto - komerco|xs=Esperanto
  • Finska - liiketoiminta
  • , yritystoiminta, ala, kauppa
  • Tyska - Geschäft
  • Litauiska - verslas
  • Maltese: negozju
  • Persiska - کار
  • Polska - biznes
  • Rumänska - afacere
  • Ryska - бизнес
  • , дело
  • Swahili - biashara
  • volume or amount of commercial trade

  • Holländska - zaken
  • Finska - kauppa
  • , liikevaihto
  • Japanese: 景気 (keiki)
  • Makedonska - промет
  • Swahili - biashara
  • patronage

  • Arabiska - رعاية
  • Holländska - klandizie
  • Finska - asiakkuus
  • private commercial interests taken collectively

  • Finska - elinkeinoelämä
  • , yritykset
  • Swahili - biashara
  • management of commercial enterprises

  • Finska - liikkeenjohto
  • , bisnes
  • Swahili - biashara
  • particular situation or activity

  • Finska - asia
  • , juttu
  • Ryska - дело
  • objective or a matter needing to be dealt with

  • Finska - asia
  • , tehtävä

    task

    something involving one personally

  • Tjeckiska - záležitost
  • , věc
  • Holländska - zaken
  • Finska - asia
  • id

  • Makedonska - работа
  • Ryska - дело
  • matters that come before a body for deliberation or action

  • Finska - asiat
  • business class

  • Holländska - businessclass
  • Finska - bisnes
  • Swahili - biashara
  • action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing

    collective noun for a group of ferrets

  • Finska - lauma
  • Swahili - biashara
  • slang: something very good

  • Finska - asia
  • slang: excrement

  • Finska - asia
  • Adjective

    ?

    Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

  • "Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone."
  • * 1897, Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee, Sound currency, Volumes 4-5, page cclii,

    *: They are solely business instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely a business relation. His use of them is purely a business use.

    * 1996, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, American Law Reports: Annotations and Cases, Volume 35, page 432,

    *: the fact that the injured party came to the insured premises for solely business purposes precluded any reliance on the non-business pursuits exception (§ 1 1 2b).

    * 2003, Marvin Snider, Compatibility Breeds Success: How to Manage Your Relationship with Your Business Partner, page 298,

    *: Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solely business partnerships.

    professional|Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.

    * 1889, The Clothier and furnisher, Volume 19, page 38,

    *: He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.

    * 1909, La Salle Extension University, Business Administration: Business Practice, page 77,

    *: and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.

    * 1927, Making of America Project, w:Harper's_Magazine|Harper's_Magazine, Volume 154, page 502,

    *: Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughly business men and worked for profit.

    * 2009, w:Frank_Channing_Haddock|Frank_Channing_Haddock, Business Power: Supreme Business Laws and Maxims that Win Wealth, page 231,

    *: The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughly business manner.

    Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

    * 1867, w:Edmund_Hodgson_Yates|Edmund_Hodgson_Yates (editor), Amiens, in Tinsley's Magazine, page 430,

    *: Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.

    See also

  • Appendix:_Animals
  • Appendix:English_collective_nouns
  • Statistics

  • - human|kept|382|business|mean|manner|following
  • ----

    business (Finnish)

    Etymology

  • Engelska - fi
  • .

    Pronunciation

  • - ˈbisnes
  • - ˈpisnes
  • - ˈbusinesː
  • Noun

    - lang=fi

    Declension

    This spelling does not fit nicely into Finnish declension system and is therefore seldom used, and mainly in nominative singular. Pronunciation "bisnes": {{fi-decl|type=vastaus|nom_sg=business|gen_sg=bisneksen|par_sg=bisnestä|ine_sg=bisneksessä|ela_sg=bisneksestä|ill_sg=bisnekseen|ade_sg=bisneksellä|abl_sg=bisnekseltä|all_sg=bisnekselle|ess_sg=bisneksenä|tra_sg=bisnekseksi|abe_sg=bisneksettä|nom_pl=bisnekset|gen_pl=bisneksien|gen_pl2=bisnesten|par_pl=bisneksiä|ine_pl=bisneksissä|ela_pl=bisneksistä|ill_pl=bisneksiin|ade_pl=bisneksillä|abl_pl=bisneksiltä|all_pl=bisneksille|ess_pl=bisneksinä|tra_pl=bisneksiksi|ins_pl=bisneksin|abe_pl=bisneksittä|com_pl=bisneksineen}} Pronunciation "business": {{fi-decl|type=vastaus|nom_sg=business|gen_sg=busineksen|par_sg=businesta|ine_sg=busineksessa|ela_sg=busineksesta|ill_sg=businekseen|ade_sg=busineksella|abl_sg=businekselta|all_sg=businekselle|ess_sg=busineksena|tra_sg=businekseksi|abe_sg=busineksetta|nom_pl=businekset|gen_pl=busineksien|gen_pl2=businesten|par_pl=busineksia|ine_pl=busineksissa|ela_pl=busineksista|ill_pl=busineksiin|ade_pl=busineksilla|abl_pl=busineksilta|all_pl=busineksille|ess_pl=busineksina|tra_pl=busineksiksi|ins_pl=busineksin|abe_pl=busineksitta|com_pl=busineksineen}}

    Usage notes

    It may be advisable to avoid using this term in writing.

    Synonyms

  • See Synonyms-section under bisnes#Synonyms|bisnes
  • ----

    business (Italian)

    Etymology

  • Engelska - it
  • - |lang=en.

    Pronunciation

  • - lang=it
  • Noun

    #English|business (commercial enterprise)

    Synonyms

  • Italienska - affare
  • Italienska - impresa
  • ----

    business (Tatar)

    Etymology

  • Engelska - tt
  • .

    Noun

    noun|l

    business#English|business

    Declension

    nıñ|ga|nı|da|dan

    References

    business dairäläre iğtibarın Tatarstan belän simple:business

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