English noun: business | |||
1. | business (group) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | ||
Samples | He bought his brother's business. A small mom-and-pop business. A racially integrated business concern. | ||
Synonyms | business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern | ||
Broader (hypernym) | enterprise | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | agency, brokerage, business firm, carrier, chain, common carrier, dealership, firm, franchise, house, maker, manufacturer, manufacturing business, partnership, processor, shipbuilder, underperformer | ||
Member holonym | division | ||
Domain category | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Domain category members | shipping room | ||
2. | business (act) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | ||
Samples | Computers are now widely used in business. | ||
Synonyms | business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Broader (hypernym) | commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | advertising, agribusiness, agriculture, building, butchering, butchery, construction, discount business, employee-owned business, employee-owned enterprise, factory farm, field, field of operation, finance, fishing, industry, line of business, manufacture, packaging, printing, publication, publicizing, publishing, real-estate business, shipping, storage, tourism, touristry, transport, transportation, venture | ||
Part holonym | business activity, commercial activity | ||
Part meronym | market, market place, marketplace | ||
Domain category members | administration, astuteness, bankroll, business, business, business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, business people, business sector, businesspeople, capitalist, celluloid, chain, cinema, concern, copartner, disposal, doldrums, dull, establishment, film, gambling den, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, hostile, intangible, operation, overcapitalisation, overcapitalization, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, player, privatise, privatize, roll, shrewdness, slow, sluggish, stagnancy, stagnation, tangible | ||
3. | business (act) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | ||
Samples | He's not in my line of business. | ||
Synonyms | job, line, line of work, occupation | ||
Broader (hypernym) | activity | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | accountancy, accounting, appointment, berth, billet, biz, calling, career, catering, confectionery, craft, employment, farming, game, land, medium, metier, office, photography, place, position, post, profession, salt mine, situation, sport, spot, trade, treadmill, vocation, work | ||
4. | business (cognition) a rightful concern or responsibility | ||
Samples | It's none of your business. Mind your own business. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | concern, headache, vexation, worry | ||
5. | business (cognition) an immediate objective | ||
Samples | Gossip was the main business of the evening. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | aim, object, objective, target | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | occasions | ||
6. | business (act) the volume of commercial activity | ||
Samples | Business is good today. Show me where the business was today. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | business activity, commercial activity | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | land-office business, patronage, trade | ||
Domain category | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
7. | business (group) business concerns collectively | ||
Samples | Government and business could not agree. | ||
Synonyms | business sector | ||
Broader (hypernym) | sector | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | big business | ||
Domain category | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Domain category members | incorporate | ||
8. | business (group) customers collectively | ||
Samples | They have an upper class clientele. | ||
Synonyms | clientele, patronage | ||
Broader (hypernym) | people | ||
9. | business (act) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | ||
Samples | His business with the cane was hilarious. | ||
Synonyms | byplay, stage business | ||
Broader (hypernym) | acting, performing, playacting, playing | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik | ||