| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
Synonyms: |
affairs, balls in air, business, commerce, concerns, doings, intercourse, irons in fire, matters, proceedings, ropes, sale, strings, things, trade, traffic, transactions, truck, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual deed |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
Synonyms: |
act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
Synonyms: |
affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trading, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
Synonyms: |
business, dealing, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, trade, traffic, truck, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black-market production |
Synonyms: |
bootlegging, counterfeiting, crime, dealing, goods*, moonshine, piracy, plunder, poaching, rum-running, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, trafficking, violation, wetbacking |
Antonyms: |
legal goods |
| Main Entry: | distribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, dispersion |
Synonyms: |
administration, alloting, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assessment, assigning, circulating, circulation, dealing, delivery, diffusion, dispensation, dispersal, disposal, disposing, dissemination, dissipating, division, dole, handing out, handling, mailing, marketing, partition, partitioning, propagation, prorating, rationing, scattering, sharing, spreading, trading, transport, transportation |
Antonyms: |
collection, gathering, hoard, hoarding, maintenance, store |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
Synonyms: |
barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, shuffling, substitution, supplanting, supplantment, swap, switch, tit for tat, traffic, transaction, transfer, transposing, transposition, truck |
| Main Entry: | intercourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication; business exchange |
Synonyms: |
association, commerce, communion, connection, contact, converse, correspondence, dealings, give-and-take, interchange, intercommunication, mesh, networking, team play, teamwork, trade, traffic, transactions |
Antonyms: |
miscommunication |
| Main Entry: | proceedings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, report of event |
Synonyms: |
affairs, annals, archives, business, dealings, documents, doings, matters, minutes, records, transactions |