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| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | job, profession |
| Synonyms: | bag*, calling, career, craft, dodge*, employment, field, function, game, line, livelihood, métier, occupation, pursuit, racket*, specialty, trade, vocation, work, biz, what one is into |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Antonyms: | avocation, recreation, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | company, enterprise |
| Synonyms: | cartel, concern, corporation, establishment, factory, firm, house, institution, market, mill, monopoly, organization, outfit, partnership, setup, shop, store, syndicate, trust, venture, Mom and Pop, fly-by-night operation, megacorp, shoestring operation |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
| Synonyms: | bargaining, barter, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industry, manufacturing, market, racket*, selling, traffic, transaction, undertaking, affairs, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, industrialism, merchandising, production and distribution, sales, trading |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal concern |
| Synonyms: | affair, assignment, duty, function, hanky-panky*, happening, interest, issue, lookout, matter, palaver, point, problem, question, responsibility, subject, task, topic, beeswax, carrying on, goings-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
business, occupation, employment; pursuit [more]; 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 [more]., 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) [more]; engagement; undertaking [more]., vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade (commerce) [more]., exercise; work (action) [more]; avocation; press of business (activity) [more].
-verbs
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 [more]; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with (do) [more]., 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.
-adjectives
businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy (actively employed) [more]; on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.
-adverbs
in the course of business, all in one's day's work; professionally,
-phrases
"a business with an income at its heels" [Cowper]; amoto quaeramus seria ludo [Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Tacitus].
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| Main Entry: | calling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chosen profession |
| Synonyms: | art, business, career, craft, day gig, do*, dodge*, employment, gig*, go*, handicraft, hang*, life's work, lifework, line, mission, métier, nine-to-five, occupation, play, province, pursuit, racket*, rat race*, slot*, swindle*, trade, vocation, walk of life, work |
| Antonyms: | amusement, avocation, entertainment, hobby, recreation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clientele |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customers of business |
| Synonyms: | audience, business, constituency, cortege, following, market, patronage, public, trade, clientage, clientry, clients, dependents, patrons, regulars |
| Antonyms: | management, ownership |
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | business, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, trade, traffic, truck, dealing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | corporation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business organization, usually large |
| Synonyms: | association, bunch, business, clan, company, crew, crowd, enterprise, gang, jungle*, mob, multinational, outfit, partnership, ring, shell, society, syndicate, zoo, corporate body, hookup, legal entity, megacorp, octopus* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
| Synonyms: | business, commerce, doings, intercourse, proceedings, sale, things, trade, traffic, truck, affairs, balls in air, concerns, irons in fire, matters, ropes, strings, transactions, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | episode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure; scene |
| Synonyms: | affair, business, chapter, circumstance, doings, event, experience, goings-on, happening, incident, installment, interlude, matter, occasion, occurrence, part, passage, section, thing*, what's going down |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | everything |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entirety |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, all, all in all, all that, all things, business, complex, each thing, every little thing, fixins', lock stock and barrel, lot, many things, sum, the works, total, universe, whole, whole ball of wax, whole caboodle*, whole enchilada, whole lot, whole shebang |
| Antonyms: | nothing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | finance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic affairs |
| Synonyms: | banking, business, commerce, economics, investment, money, accounts, financial affairs, money management |
| Main Entry: | financial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having to do with money |
| Synonyms: | banking, business, commercial, economic, fiscal, monetary, numeric, pecuniary, pocket, budgeting, numbers |
| Main Entry: | gadget |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | device, novelty |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, appliance, business, concern, contraption, contrivance, doodad*, doohickey*, gimmick, gizmo*, invention, object, thing*, thingamajig, tool, utensil, widget*, whatchamacallit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | industrial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | related to manufacturing |
| Synonyms: | automated, business, manufactured, manufacturing, mechanical, modern, streamlined, technical, factory-made, in industry, industrialized, machine-made, mechanized, smokestack |
| Antonyms: | domestic |
| Main Entry: | lifework |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's calling |
| Synonyms: | business, career, interest, mission, occupation, profession, purpose, pursuit, vocation, work |
| Antonyms: | task |
| Main Entry: | livelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupation |
| Synonyms: | art, bread and butter, business, circumstances, craft, employment, game*, grind*, income, job, keep*, living, maintenance, means, profession, racket*, rat race*, resources, slot, subsistence, support, sustenance, thing*, trade, vocation, work, alimentation, nine-to-five, source of income, what one is into |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | market/mart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, venue for selling goods |
| Synonyms: | bazaar, booth, business, delicatessen, department store, emporium, exchange, fair, general store, grocery store, mall, mart, outlet, shop, square, stall, stock exchange, store, trading post, truck, variety store, warehouse, bodega, chain store, co-op, corner store, deli, dimestore, drugstore, shopping mall, showroom, souk, supermarket |
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