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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Business \Busi"ness\, n.; pl {Businesses}. [From {Busy}.]
1. That which busies one or that which engages the time,
attention, or labor of any one as his principal concern
or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time;
constant employment; regular occupation; as the business
of life; business before pleasure.
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's
business? --Luke ii 49.
2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for
livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade art, or a
profession. ``The business of instruction.'' --Prescott.
3. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in
general; mercantile transactions.
It seldom happens that men of a studious turn
acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge
of business. --Bp. Popteus
4. That which one has to do or should do special service,
duty, or mission.
The daughter of the King of France, On serious
business, craving quick despatch, Importunes
personal conference. --Shak.
What business has the tortoise among the clouds?
--L'Estrange.
5. Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense
and modified by the connected words
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of
good women. --Shak.
Bestow Your needful counsel to our business. --Shak.
6. (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons
and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by
the stage manager in rehearsal.
7. Care anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To do one's business}, to ruin one [Colloq.] --Wycherley.
{To make (a thing) one's business}, to occupy one's self with
a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.]
{To mean business}, to be earnest. [Colloq.]
Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement;
employment; calling; occupation; trade profession;
vocation; office; duty.
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