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pursuit; pursuing; prosecution; pursuance; enterprise (undertaking); business; adventure (essay); quest (search); scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt., chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar., pursuer; hunter, huntsman; shikari, sportsman, Nimrod; hound.

pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on (do); engage in (undertake); set about (begin); endeavor; court (request) seek (search) [more]; aim at (intention); follow the trail (trace); fish for (experiment); press on (haste); run a race (velocity)., chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound; tread on the heels, follow on the heels of, (sequence) [more]., rush upon; rush headlong (violence) ride full tilt at, run full tilt at; make a leap at, jump at, snatch at, run down; start game., tread a path; take a course, hold a course; shape one's steps, direct one's steps, bend one's steps, course; play a game; fight one's way, elbow one's way; follow up; take to, take up; go in for; ride one's hobby.

pursuing; in quest of (inquiry), in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit; on the scent.

in pursuance of (intention); after.

business, occupation, employment; pursuit; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case., matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty., part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career., office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service (servitude); engagement; undertaking., vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade (commerce)., exercise; work (action); avocation; press of business (activity).

pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with (do)., drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work., officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office, discharge the office, perform the office, perform the duties, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio., be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full (activity) [more]., be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.

businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy (actively employed); on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.

in the course of business, all in one's day's work; professionally,