business

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noun

1. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it (Freq. 35)
- he bought his brother's business
- a small mom-and-pop business
- a racially integrated business concern
• Syn:
concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation
• Topics:
commercial enterprise, business enterprise
• Members of this Topic:
shipping room
• Hypernyms:
enterprise
• Hyponyms:
agency, brokerage, carrier, common carrier, chain,
firm, house, business firm, franchise, dealership, manufacturer,
maker, manufacturing business, partnership, processor, shipbuilder, underperformer
• Member Meronyms:
division
2. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects (Freq. 20)
- computers are now widely used in business
• Syn:
commercial enterprise, business enterprise
• Members of this Topic:
dull, slow, sluggish, hostile, tangible,
intangible, overcapitalization, overcapitalisation, operation, administration, disposal,
establishment, gambling house, gambling den, gambling hell, gaming house, shrewdness,
astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, film, cinema, celluloid,
business people, businesspeople, business sector, chain, concern, business concern,
business organization, business organisation, capitalist, copartner, player, bankroll,
roll, stagnation, stagnancy, doldrums, privatize, privatise
• Hypernyms:
commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
• Hyponyms:
tourism, touristry, fishing, butchery, butchering,
storage, industry, manufacture, field, field of operation, line of business,
employee-owned enterprise, employee-owned business, finance, discount business, real-estate business, advertising,
publicizing, publication, publishing, printing, packaging, agribusiness,
agriculture, factory farm, construction, building, transportation, shipping,
transport, venture
• Part Holonyms:
market, marketplace, market place
• Part Meronyms:
business activity, commercial activity
3. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (Freq. 13)
- he's not in my line of business
• Syn:
occupation, job, line of work, line
• Derivationally related forms:
occupy (for: occupation)
• Hypernyms:
activity
• Hyponyms:
confectionery, sport, farming, land, game,
biz, career, calling, vocation, employment, work,
appointment, position, post, berth, office, spot,
billet, place, situation, treadmill, salt mine, trade,
craft, profession, metier, medium, accountancy, accounting,
photography, catering
4. a rightful concern or responsibility (Freq. 12)
- it's none of your business
- mind your own business
• Hypernyms:
concern, worry, headache, vexation
5. an immediate objective (Freq. 9)
- gossip was the main business of the evening
• Hypernyms:
aim, object, objective, target
• Hyponyms:
occasions
6. the volume of commercial activity (Freq. 7)
- business is good today
- show me where the business was today
• Topics:
commercial enterprise, business enterprise
• Hypernyms:
business activity, commercial activity
• Hyponyms:
trade, patronage, land-office business
7. business concerns collectively (Freq. 5)
- Government and business could not agree
• Syn:
business sector
• Topics:
commercial enterprise, business enterprise
• Members of this Topic:
incorporate
• Hypernyms:
sector
• Hyponyms:
big business
8. customers collectively
- they have an upper class clientele
• Syn:
clientele, patronage
• Derivationally related forms:
patronage (for: patronage)
• Hypernyms:
people
9. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
- his business with the cane was hilarious
• Syn:
stage business, byplay
• Hypernyms:
acting, playing, playacting, performing
• Hyponyms:
shtik, schtik, shtick, schtick

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stage business, byplay, clientele, patronage, business sector, occupation, job, line of work, line, commercial enterprise, business enterprise, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation