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business

noun

incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

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Word length
8
Starts with
B
Ends with
S
Contains
US
Scrabble score
10
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˈbɪz.nɪs

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Meaning

Definitions

noun

  1. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

    “his business with the cane was hilarious”

noun

  1. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

    “he's not in my line of business”

noun

  1. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

    “computers are now widely used in business”

noun

  1. the volume of commercial activity

    “business is good today”

noun

  1. a rightful concern or responsibility

    “it's none of your business”

noun

  1. an immediate objective

    “gossip was the main business of the evening”

noun

  1. business concerns collectively

    “Government and business could not agree”

noun

  1. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

    “he bought his brother's business”

noun

  1. customers collectively

    “they have an upper class clientele”

In context

Example Sentences

his business with the cane was hilarious
he's not in my line of business
computers are now widely used in business
business is good today
show me where the business was today
it's none of your business
mind your own business
gossip was the main business of the evening
Government and business could not agree
he bought his brother's business
a small mom-and-pop business
a racially integrated business concern
they have an upper class clientele

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