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Synonyms for business
ˈbɪz nɪsbusi·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
business
A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.
Synonyms:
affair, art, avocation, barter, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trade, trading, traffic, transaction, vocation, workPreposition:
The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
business
Synonyms:
occupation, profession, vocation, transaction, trade, calling, office, employment, interest, duty, affair, matter, concernAntonyms:
stagnation, leisure, inactivity
Princeton's WordNet
business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisationnoun
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"
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headache, business concern, business sector, business organisation, business organization, line of work, business enterprise, worry, job, byplay, care, stage business, commercial enterprise, line, patronage, occupation, vexation, clientele, concern, fearcommercial enterprise, business enterprise, businessnoun
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
"computers are now widely used in business"
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occupation, clientele, job, line, byplay, patronage, business organisation, concern, business organization, line of work, business concern, business sector, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, stage businessoccupation, business, job, line of work, linenoun
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
"he's not in my line of business"
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personal credit line, occupancy, cable, billet, stemma, commercial enterprise, business concern, ancestry, byplay, agate line, business organisation, stage business, lineage, crinkle, stock, task, telephone circuit, clientele, seam, bloodline, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, line of products, job, assembly line, contrast, problem, patronage, product line, business sector, military control, blood, bank line, tune, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, concern, melody, strain, dividing line, transmission line, moving in, caper, line of descent, chore, argumentation, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, occupation, line of business, pedigree, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, origin, business organization, communication channel, telephone line, credit line, production line, business enterprise, line of reasoning, line of work, note, argumentbusinessnoun
a rightful concern or responsibility
"it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
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occupation, clientele, job, line, byplay, patronage, business organisation, line of work, concern, business organization, business concern, business sector, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, stage businessbusinessnoun
an immediate objective
"gossip was the main business of the evening"
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occupation, clientele, job, line, byplay, patronage, business organisation, line of work, concern, business organization, business concern, business sector, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, stage businessbusinessnoun
the volume of commercial activity
"business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
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occupation, clientele, job, line, byplay, patronage, business organisation, line of work, concern, business organization, business concern, business sector, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, stage businessbusiness, business sectornoun
business concerns collectively
"Government and business could not agree"
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occupation, clientele, job, line, byplay, patronage, business organisation, line of work, concern, business organization, business concern, business sector, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, stage businessclientele, patronage, businessnoun
customers collectively
"they have an upper class clientele"
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business concern, business sector, patronage, backing, clientele, backup, business organization, line of work, business enterprise, condescension, job, business organisation, byplay, stage business, commercial enterprise, line, trade, championship, disdain, occupation, concernbusiness, stage business, byplaynoun
incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
"his business with the cane was hilarious"
Synonyms:
occupation, clientele, job, line, byplay, patronage, business organisation, line of work, concern, business organization, business concern, business sector, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, stage business
Dictionary of English Synonymes
businessnoun
Synonyms:
calling, employment, occupation, pursuit, vocation, profession, craft, AVOCATION, walk of lifebusinessnoun
businessnoun
Synonyms:
concern, matter, affair, transactionbusinessnoun
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
businessnoun
Synonyms:
vocation, calling, pursuit, craft, trade, occupation, profession, avocation, traffic, trade, commerce, enterprise, industry, barter, duty, function, work, place, affair, concern, matterAssociated words:
commercial, mercantile, technical, technicality, technology
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "business":
commercial, enterprise, affairs, company, trade, enterprises, operational, undertaking, corporate, businesses, 'affaires, companies, activity, commerce, entrepreneurial, trading, firm, activities, undertakings, firms, operations, entrepreneurship, operating, work, cases, industry, venture, undertaken, case, empresarial, corporations, 'entreprise, businessmen, operation, matters, affaires, endeavour, entreprise, negócios, professional
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How to use business in a sentence?
Rick Ector said women are driving growth in Rick Ector business. It used to be that we would only have one or two women in a class, now we are seeing much, much more. This past May, I held a class where we trained 300 ladies.
You need to take inventory of all the ways your are presenting yourself, from business cards to stationery to social media, you want people to find only current information, rather than someone who is half-in and half-out of an old identity.
I stuck around in Hollywood for too long, i was there a long time and when I left I was smart enough to realize that what I was leaving was not just the movie business.
UAE, Bahrain and Poland are our high performers. We have very good positions in regard to our credit card business in UAE, Bahrain and Poland.
Mathematics and Kiswahili are my favorite subjects, i want to go into business in the future.
Translations for business
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- عمل, رعاية, مشروع, تجارةArabic
- negociCatalan, Valencian
- byznys, podnik, obchod, záležitost, věcCzech
- forretning, brancheDanish
- Unternehmen, Geschäft, AngelegenheitGerman
- επιχείρησηGreek
- entrepreno, komerco, establoEsperanto
- negocio, asunto, empresaSpanish
- äriEstonian
- بنگاه تجاری, کار, پیشه, تجارتخانهPersian
- ala, asia, elinkeinoelämä, yritystoiminta, liiketoiminta, yritykset, juttu, asiat, kauppa, yritys, ammatti, liikkeenjohto, liike, bisnes, asiakkuus, työ, tehtävä, lauma, liikevaihtoFinnish
- entreprise, affaireFrench
- gnóIrish
- עסק, עסקיםHebrew
- व्यापारHindi
- ügy, üzletHungarian
- affaires, negotiosInterlingua
- aziendaItalian
- עסקיםHebrew
- 企業, 業務, ビジネス, 商売, 景気, 事業Japanese
- ವ್ಯವಹಾರKannada
- 기업, 업무, 企業, 사업, 事業Korean
- жанжал, ишмердүүлүк, ишкана, иш, амал, промысел, соода-сатык, ишкердүүлүк, профессия, окуя, чарбачылык, бизнес, соода, скандал, өнөр жай, ишкердик, компания, чарба, кесип, чатак, жумуш, фирма, аракетKyrgyz
- negotiumLatin
- verslasLithuanian
- nodarbošanās, uzņēmums, biznessLatvian
- kanonkanona, talidy, raharaha, tadidyMalagasy
- pakihiMāori
- занимање, дејност, работа, прометMacedonian
- negozju, negozjanta, negozjantMaltese
- vak, bedrijf, zakenleven, zaak, businessclass, klandizie, onderneming, zakenDutch
- forretningNorwegian
- zajęcie, biznes, sprawaPolish
- negócio, trabalho, ramoPortuguese
- afacere, întreprindereRomanian
- занятие, работа, дело, бизнес, предприятиеRussian
- firma, poduzećeSerbo-Croatian
- biasharaSwahili
- వ్యాపారముTelugu
- กงกางThai
- negosyoTagalog
- işTurkish
- kinh doanhVietnamese
- 商業Chinese
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