Engelsk substantiv: business | |||
1. | business (om gruppe) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He bought his brother's business. A small mom-and-pop business. A racially integrated business concern. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | enterprise | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | agency, brokerage, business firm, carrier, chain, common carrier, dealership, firm, franchise, house, maker, manufacturer, manufacturing business, partnership, processor, shipbuilder, underperformer | ||
Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | division | ||
Overordnet kategori | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Forekomster i samme kategori | shipping room | ||
2. | business (om handling) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Computers are now widely used in business. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 | ||
Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | business activity, commercial activity | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede uttrykkene | market, market place, marketplace | ||
Forekomster i samme kategori | 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 (om handling) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He's not in my line of business. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | job, line, line of work, occupation | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | activity | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 (om erkjendelse) a rightful concern or responsibility | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It's none of your business. Mind your own business. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | concern, headache, vexation, worry | ||
5. | business (om erkjendelse) an immediate objective | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Gossip was the main business of the evening. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | aim, object, objective, target | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | occasions | ||
6. | business (om handling) the volume of commercial activity | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Business is good today. Show me where the business was today. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | business activity, commercial activity | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | land-office business, patronage, trade | ||
Overordnet kategori | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
7. | business (om gruppe) business concerns collectively | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Government and business could not agree. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | business sector | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | sector | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | big business | ||
Overordnet kategori | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
Forekomster i samme kategori | incorporate | ||
8. | business (om gruppe) customers collectively | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They have an upper class clientele. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | clientele, patronage | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | people | ||
9. | business (om handling) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His business with the cane was hilarious. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | byplay, stage business | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | acting, performing, playacting, playing | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik | ||