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business
  1. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
  2. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
  3. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
  4. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
  5. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
  6. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
  7. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
  8. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
  9. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
  10. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
  11. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
  12. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
  13. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
  14. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
  15. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
  16. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
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  18. Examples:
    1. “A shop owner who does not attend could see his business shut down for days.”
      “Ray's business involved selling milkshake makers before he got into franchising.”
      “He did not engage in any business activities outside of his employment duties with the defendant.”
businesscrat
  1. (US) A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States.
businessperson
  1. A person in business, or one who works at a commercial institution.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When a businessperson has a contract with a forestry company, the bank does not want to lend him or her any money.”
      “How can any businessperson justify charging such an exorbitant price for apple pie and tea?”
      “In most countries in Africa and the Middle East, a businessperson must meet an official face-to-face to discover such things.”
businessman
  1. a man in business, one who works at a commercial institution
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A local businessman is offering for sale a most unusual item which was brought to him as part of a job lot of scrap.”
      “He is a businessman, and he may be able to put me in the way of obtaining a position.”
      “Like him, Leeds businessman Ian Brown, 56, was wait-listed for an angioplasty.”
businesswear
  1. Clothing designed to be worn in a business environment.
businesslikeness
  1. The state or condition of being businesslike.
businesscrat
businessese
  1. (informal) The jargon used in business.
businesswoman
  1. A woman involved in business.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A brave businesswoman who is scared stiff of sharks is set to take the charity plunge into a tank full of the fearsome fish.”
      “I found my way to a snack establishment near the pier operated by a businesswoman from Kyushu.”
      “Wachner is the quintessence of the driven, laser-focused American businesswoman.”
businesse
  1. Obsolete spelling of business
  2. Examples:
    1. “Why pre'thee, bumkin, we must make 'um believe stranger Things than This, or we shall never do our businesse.”
businessfolk
  1. businesspeople
  2. Examples:
    1. “Are these savvy businessfolk simply throwing their money into a black hole?”
businesspeople
  1. plural form of businessperson.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The late twentieth century saw the emergence of another class, a small group of businesspeople.”
      “He's peddling relief for legions of businesspeople who are caught in a web of portable work, always-on technology, and bad habits.”
      “The most successful franchisees work at becoming knowledgeable businesspeople.”
businesspersons
  1. plural of businessperson
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He is is advocating the liberalizing of access to capital for potential businesspersons.”
      “Many of the veterans that gathered are now judges, congresspersons, state officials, well-heeled businesspersons and professionals.”
      “Multiple entry visas are usually issued for businesspersons, scientists and cultural workers, athletes and journalists.”
businesswomen
  1. plural of businesswoman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Recently, these businesswomen and their center were featured on several Milwaukee radio and television stations.”
      “And that's where our future politicians, lawyers, jurists, and businesswomen are being educated.”
      “The businesswomen in the township were involved in tailoring, homecraft and other related trade activities.”
businessfolks
  1. plural of businessfolk
businesscrats
  1. plural of businesscrat
businessmen
  1. plural of businessman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Much of this travel is businessmen and women jetting around the world to meetings.”
      “The program features interviews with businessmen as diverse as toilet-seat designers, magazine editors and computer whiz-kids.”
      “Roosevelt was more of a conservative reformer than most businessmen understood.”
businesses
  1. plural of business
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Paddy Sheehan supported his call, claiming that a number of small businesses could go to the wall.”
      “This does not mean that traditional businesses are waltzing their way through cyberspace.”
      “With the economic collapse came the abandonment of hundreds of businesses by their owners.”
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