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say it: BIZ-nuhs
business is a noun meaning "a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
“he bought his brother's business”
“a small mom-and-pop business”
“a racially integrated business concern”
commercial enterprise
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
“computers are now widely used in business”
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
“he's not in my line of business”
a rightful concern or responsibility
“it's none of your business”
“mind your own business”
the volume of commercial activity
“business is good today”
“show me where the business was today”
commercial enterprise
business concerns collectively
“Government and business could not agree”
commercial enterprise
incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
“his business with the cane was hilarious”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for business come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.