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Businesses

/ˈbɪz.nɪ.sɪz/

A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

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📖 Definitions of "Businesses"

noun

1
A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
"I was left my father's business."
2
A person's occupation, work, or trade.
"He is in the motor and insurance businesses."
3
Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
"He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!"
4
The volume or amount of commercial trade.
"Business has been slow lately."

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Businesses"

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Word	Definition
mercantile	(economics) Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
clientelenoun	The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits; a group of specific clients collectively.
occupationnoun	An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
line of worknoun	(informal) An occupation.
patronagenoun	The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
commercialnoun	An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
stage businessnoun	(theater, idiomatic, term of art) Actions performed by an actor on stage done for dramatic effect; especially, action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene, with or without any dialogue.
byplaynoun	(theater) Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
concernnoun	That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
linenoun	A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
business concernnoun	a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
business enterprisenoun	the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
business organizationnoun	a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
business sector	In economics, the business sector or corporate sector - sometimes popularly called simply "business" - is "the part of the economy made up by companies".
commercial enterprisenoun	the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
activitiesnoun	(countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
actsnoun	(biblical) Clipping of Acts of the Apostles. [(biblical) The fifth book in the New Testament of the Bible.]
affairsnoun	transactions of professional or public interest
attemptsnoun	The action of trying at something.
businessmennoun	the body of individuals who manage businesses