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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: business adj : of or relating to or characteristic of trade or traders; "the mercantile North was forging ahead"- Van Wyck Brooks [syn: {mercantile}, {business(a)}] n 1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: {concern}, {business concern}, {business organization}] 2: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [syn: {commercial enterprise}, {business enterprise}] 3: business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: {business sector}] 4: the volume of business activity: "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" 5: a rightful concern or responsibility; used in such phrases as "it's none of your business" or "mind your own business" 6: the principal activity in your life; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: {occupation}, {line of work}, {line}] 7: an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening" 8: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: {stage business}, {byplay}] 9: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" [syn: {clientele}, {patronage}]
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