| Main Entry: | free enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free trade |
Synonyms: |
capitalism, free competition, free economy, free market, free-enterprise economy, free-enterprise system, liberalism, open market, private enterprise, self-regulating market |
| 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: | capitalism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic system of private ownership |
Synonyms: |
commercialism, competition, democracy, free enterprise, free market, industrialism, laissez faire economics, mercantilism, private enterprise |
Antonyms: |
communism |
| Main Entry: | deregulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the removal of imposed |
Synonyms: |
controls on a system disinvolvement, free competition, free enterprise, free trade, isolationism, laissez-faire, liberalism, noninterference, nonintervention, self-regulating market |
| Main Entry: | laissez-faire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstention from interference |
Synonyms: |
do-nothing policy, for the most, free enterprise, free hand, inaction, indifference, individualism, laisser aller, laisser passer, laissez faire, latitude, let-alone policy, live and let live, live and let live, neutrality, noninterference, nonintervention, nonrestriction, part unrestrained by law free trade, permissiveness |
| Main Entry: | open market |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free competition |
Synonyms: |
common market, competitive market, free enterprise, free market, free port, free trade, free-trade area, open trade |
| Main Entry: | private enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capitalist economic practices |
Synonyms: |
capitalism, capitalistic system, free economy, free enterprise, free-enterprise economy, free-enterprise system, private ownership, private sector |
| Main Entry: | trading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business |
Synonyms: |
affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commerce, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trade, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Business. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
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).
-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; 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.
-adjectives
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.
-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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