Definition of "business" in İngilizce

noun

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- I left my father's business.
(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- He is in the motor and insurance businesses.
- I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
- We do business all over the world.
(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- Business has been slow lately.
- They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
- I shall take my business elsewhere.
(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- I studied business at Harvard.
(countable) A particular situation or activity.
- This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
(countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
- Our principal business here is to get drunk.
- Let's get down to business.
(uncountable) Something involving one personally.
- That's none of your business.
- My work is no business of yours.
(uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
(acting, theater) Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”).
(Los Angeles, informal, with the) Hollywood, the entertainment industry.
(slang, with the) Prostitution.
(countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
(slang, British, with the) Something very good; top quality.
- These new phones are the business!
(slang, uncountable) The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.