business

• "he bought his brother's business"
• "a small mom-and-pop business"
• "a racially integrated business concern"

Synonyms

• concernbe relevant to; be on the mind of; something that interests you because it is important or affects you; an anxious feeling; a feeling of sympathy for someone or something; something or someone that causes anxiety; a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
• business concerna commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
• business organizationa commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
• business organisationa commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

• "computers are now widely used in business"

Synonyms

• commercial enterprisean enterprise connected with commerce ; the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
• business enterprisethe activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

• "he's not in my line of business"

Synonyms

• occupationthe principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power ; any activity that occupies a person's attention; the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied
• jobprofit privately from public office and official business ; arranged for contracted work to be done by others ; work occasionally; invest at a risk; the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; a workplace; an object worked on; the responsibility to do something; the performance of a piece of work; a damaging piece of work; a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him ; any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing ; (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit ; a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply ; a crime (especially a robbery)
• line of workthe principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
• linebe in line with; cover the interior of; make a mark or lines on a surface; mark with lines; fill plentifully; reinforce with fabric; a formation of people or things one beside another; a mark that is long relative to its width; a formation of people or things one behind another; a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum ; a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops); a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power ; a connected series of events or actions or developments; a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent ; a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface; a pipe used to transport liquids or gases; the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed ; a telephone connection ; acting in conformity; the descendants of one individual; something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible; the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; in games or sports; (often plural) a means of communication or access; a particular kind of product or merchandise; a commercial organization serving as a common carrier ; space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising ; the maximum credit that a customer is allowed ; a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress; a short personal letter; a conceptual separation or distinction; mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it

• "it's none of your business"
• "mind your own business"

• "gossip was the main business of the evening"

• "business is good today"
• "show me where the business was today"

• "Government and business could not agree"

Synonyms

• business sectorbusiness concerns collectively

• "they have an upper class clientele"

Synonyms

• clientelecustomers collectively
• patronagesupport by being a patron of ; be a regular customer or client of; the act of providing approval and support; customers collectively; a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient ; (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support ; the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers

• "his business with the cane was hilarious"

Synonyms

• stage businessincidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
• byplayincidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect