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business
1 business activity (buying and selling) 2 different kinds of businesses 3 running a business see also ECONOMY, INDUSTRY, BUY, SELL
1 business activity (buying and selling) - things that are bought and sold: goods (noun plural) - an organization that provides things that the public needs in everyday life: service the telephone/train service - the activity of buying and selling goods and services: business (noun U), trade (noun U), commerce (noun U); adjective: commercial the arms business ◎ foreign trade ◎ a company's commercial operations ◎ The decision was a purely commercial one; it was not in any way political. - a man/woman who buys and sells things to make money or who owns a business: businessman/businesswoman (plural businessmen/businesswomen) - a person who owns or manages a large industrial company: industrialist - to buy or sell particular goods and services: trade (in sth) (with sb), deal* in sth (with sb) - a person who buys and sells particular goods and services: dealer, trader an antiques dealer ◎ market traders (= people who sell things in a market) - to provide sb/sth with goods or services: supply sth (to sb), supply sb (with sth) a contract to supply helicopters to Saudi Arabia ◎ Can you supply us with three thousand kilos of cement? - a person or a company that provides goods: supplier the Queen's official suppliers of stationery ※ more on supplying sth PROVIDE - a person who buys things from a particular business: customer Mrs Windsor is one of our most regular customers. - a person who receives a service from a professional person: client to have lunch with a business client - a country, area or group of people who may want to buy sth: market The Far Eastern market is expanding fast. - a business agreement or arrangement: deal We're hoping to do a deal with a major Colombian coffee company. - if a deal is successful, it goes* through, you pull it off; if it is not successful, it falls* through If everything goes to plan the deal should go through on Monday. ◎ We're still hoping to pull off the Saudi deal. - a written agreement that is signed after a deal is made, to make it legal: contract; to make a written agreement with sb for them to work for you: contract sb (to do sth) We're signing the contract tomorrow. ◎ Our firm has been contracted to supply stationery to all government offices. - the amount of goods or services that a country, company, etc buys and sells: business (noun U) Business is usually slow at this time of year. - the amount of goods or services that people want: demand (for sth) (noun U) The demand for windscreens is so high that we'll have to take on more workers. - the level of demand that there is for a particular thing: market (for sth) There's a growing market for used cars. - the amount of sth that is sold: sales (noun plural) Sales are up 20%. ※ business with other countries - to send goods from one country to another: export sth; noun (U): export the export of cars to Europe - to bring goods into one country from another country: import sth; noun (U): import - goods which are exported: exports (noun plural); goods which are imported: imports (noun plural) food exports - a person who brings things from another country to sell them in their own country: importer - a person who sends things to another country to sell them: exporter ※ competition - a situation where two or more companies are trying to sell the same thing to the same people: competition (noun U); verb: compete (against/with sb/sth) (for sth) Increased competition from supermarkets has forced many small shops to close. ◎ My language school is in competition with ten others in this area. ◎ We can't compete with these foreign companies, as their labour costs are so low. - a situation in which one company controls a market or an industry: monopoly They have a virtual monopoly on computers in our country.
2 different kinds of businesses - an organization that produces or sells goods or services: company, firm to set up a new company ◎ an engineering firm - a firm, shop, factory, etc which produces or sells goods or provides a service: business - owned by an individual or a group of people: private; owned by the government: state-owned a private company/business - when a government takes control of a business, it nationalizes it; noun (U): nationalization nationalized industries - when a government passes control of a state-owned business to a private company, it privatizes it; noun (U): privatization British Airways was privatized during the 1980s. - a business that is owned and run by all the people who work in it: cooperative; adjective: cooperative a manufacturing cooperative ◎ a cooperative farm - a large company that has offices, factories, etc in many countries: multinational; adjective: multinational - (in Britain) a large company that sells shares in itself to the public: public limited company (abbreviation plc)
3 running a business - to start and organize a business: go* into business, set*/start up sth, establish sth; noun (U): establishment They're planning to go into business together. ◎ I want to set up a record company. ◎ This company was established in 1894. - when one company buys or starts to control another company, it takes* it over; noun: takeover The firm was taken over by a French company in 1994. - to cause a business to stop working: shut* sth down, close sth down; if a business stops working, it shuts* down, closes down Many businesses have had to close down because of the poor state of the economy. ※ investment - to put money in the bank or into a business so as to make a profit: invest (sth) (in sth); noun (U): investment He invested all his money in a property company. - an amount of money that has been put in a business: investment - a person who puts money into a company because they hope to make a profit: investor - one of the equal parts into which the money of a business company has been divided: share I own three hundred shares in BP. - a person who owns shares in a company: shareholder - a person whose job is to buy and sell shares in companies: stockbroker - the part of a company's profits that is paid to the people who own shares in it: dividend - a place where shares are bought and sold: stock exchange - the business of buying and selling shares: the stock market to make money on the stock market ※ management - to organize and control a business: run* sth, manage sth; noun (U): management I run a small computer firm. ◎ We need to improve the management of this business. - one of the sections that a business is divided into: department; adjective: departmental the sales department ◎ the personnel department ◎ a departmental meeting - a person who controls a company: manager; the group of people who manage a company: management (with singular or plural verb) ※ more on managing sth MANAGEMENT - a person who gives advice to people about their business: consultant a management consultant - a person who you know who may be able to help you in your business: contact I have some useful contacts in Berlin. ※ finances - the money that a business has: finances (noun plural); adjective: financial We can expect a significant improvement in our finances in the next financial year. ◎ We're in a terrible financial situation. - a person who provides money for big businesses and other organizations: financier - a record of all the money that a person or business spends or receives: accounts (noun plural), books (noun plural); to write down the accounts: do*/keep* the accounts; this kind of work: accountancy (noun U), bookkeeping (noun U) - a person who keeps accounts, advises on tax, etc: accountant - the money that a business makes when it sells sth for more than it paid for it: profit (noun C/U); opposite: loss (noun C/U) Profits are down on last year. ◎ pre-tax profit (= the amount of profit you have before you pay tax on it) They made a ※£7 million loss last year. - if a business makes a profit, it is profitable, profit-making, it makes* money I hope we can make this business profitable by the end of the year. ◎ Does your business make much money? - the ability of a business to make a profit: profitability (noun U) - the money that a person or company owes: debt - if a company does not have enough money to pay all its debts, it is/goes bankrupt, (informal) bust The firm went bust last July. ※ more on debt DEBT
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