1. 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
    
2. 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"; "he bought his brother's business organization";
   - concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation [Brit]
    
3. What someone normally does to earn money; a person's profession, work, or trade
   "he's not in my line of business";
   - occupation, job, line of work, line
    
4. The volume of commercial activity
   "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
    
5. A rightful concern or responsibility
   "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
    
6. An immediate objective
   "gossip was the main business of the evening"
    
7. The commercial part of the economy; business concerns collectively
   "Government and business could not agree"; "The new policy aimed to stimulate growth in the business sector";
   - business sector
    
8. Customers collectively
   "they have an upper class business";
   - clientele, patronage
    
9. Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
   "his business with the cane was hilarious";
   - stage business, byplay
    
10. Matters of personal concern
    "get his personal business in order";
    - personal business, personal matters, affairs

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, Innovation and Energy