business

Definitions

General English

• noun the work of buying and selling things
• noun something that affects a particular person

Accounting

• noun work in buying, selling, or doing other things to make a profit

Economics

• A firm.
• The activities engaged in by firms.

Information & Library Science

• noun an organisation that produces and sells goods or provides a service

Media Studies

• noun an action or series of actions that an actor includes for dramatic or comic effect or to fill in a pause when nothing of interest is happening on stage

Politics

• noun the work of making, buying or selling
• noun a company, shop or factory which makes, buys or sells things
• noun things that are discussed in a meeting

Slang

• a hypodermic syringe. A drug user’s euphemism.
• an act of defecation. To ‘do one’s business’ was a nursery expression epitomising Victorian notions of duty and hygiene.
• a thrashing, a thorough dressing down or beating up
• the very best, the acme of excellence

Travel

• noun types of business taken as a group

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• bypass

Contexts for “business”

15 definitions in context
• General English
• Accounting
• Economics
• Information & Library Science
• Media Studies
• Politics
• Slang
• Travel