line of business

Questions about line of business

What does line of business mean?

line of business means "a particular kind of product or merchandise". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for line of business?

Close synonyms include line, product line, line of products, line of merchandise, business line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is line of business a common word?

line of business is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.