business
- n.commercetrade
1) to conduct, do, transact; drum up business (to do business with smb.)
2) to go into business
3) to go out of business
4) big; small business
5) a mail-order business; show business; the travel business
6) retail; wholesale business
7) (AE) a land-office ('brisk') business (to do a land-office business in real estate)
8) business drops off; picks up
9) business is brisk, booming, flourishing, thriving; slack; business is at a standstill
10) in business (to be in business for oneself)
11) on business (to travel on business)
firm12) to build up; establish; launch a business
13) to manage, operate, run a business
14) to buy into; buy out; take over a business
work15) to get down to business
16) to go about one's business
17) to talk business
affairs18) to mind one's (own) business
19) bad; dirty; funny; (colloq.) monkey business
20) company; personal; unfinished business
misc.21) he has no business leaving so early ('he should not leave so early'); to know one's business ('to be competent in one's field'); to state one's business ('to explain what one is doing'); to mix business with pleasure ('to combine work and recreation'); to mean business ('to be serious about achieving one's ends'); to give smb. the business ('to deceive smb.'); it's none of your business ('the matter doesn't concern you')
* * *['bɪznɪs](colloq.) monkey businessboomingbuy outdirtyflourishinglaunch a businesspersonalpicks uprun a businessshow businesssmall businesstake over a businessthe travel businessthrivingtransactunfinished businesswholesale businessbusiness is at a standstillit's none of your business ('the matter doesn't concern you')to know one's business ('to be competent in one's field')to mean business ('to be serious about achieving one's ends')to mix business with pleasure ('to combine work and recreation')to give smb. the business ('to deceive smb. ')to state one's business ('to explain what one is doing')drum up business (to do business with smb.)['affairs'] to mind one's (own) business['commerce'] ['trade'] to conduct['firm'] to build up['work'] to get down to businessa mail-order businessto buy intoto go about one's businessto go into businessto go out of businessto manageto talk businessbusiness drops offbusiness is brisk['misc. '] he has no business leaving so early ('he should not leave so early')in business (to be in business for oneself)(AE) a land-office ('brisk') business (to do a land-office business in real estate)on business (to travel on business)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
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