Business crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Business” are LINE, FAIR or SPOT, with 4 letters. Below are 58 answers from 3 to 14 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

JOB 3 letters · noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

LINE 4 letters · noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money “he's not in my line of business”

PAPER 5 letters · noun

a business firm that publishes newspapers

CONCERN 7 letters · noun

a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it “a racially integrated business concern”

DIVISION 8 letters · noun

an administrative unit in government or business

PATRONAGE 9 letters · noun

customers collectively

OCCUPATION 10 letters · noun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

ASSOCIATION 11 letters · noun

a social or business relationship “many close associations with England”

MANUFACTURER 12 letters · noun

a business engaged in manufacturing some product

ADMINISTRATOR 13 letters · noun

someone who administers a business

CAPITALIZATION 14 letters · noun

an estimation of the value of a business

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, LINE, FAIR, SPOT, SUIT and SCAM all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: I → LINE · A → FAIR · P → SPOT · U → SUIT · C → SCAM. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, PAPER, MAKER and SYNOD all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: P → PAPER · M → MAKER · S → SYNOD. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, BYPLAY, OUTLET, CALLER, RECESS and PACKER all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: B → BYPLAY · O → OUTLET · C → CALLER · R → RECESS · P → PACKER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “businesses” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “business” means

• noun: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it (“he bought his brother's business”)
• noun: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects (“computers are now widely used in business”)
• noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (“he's not in my line of business”)
• noun: a rightful concern or responsibility (“it's none of your business”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as BUSINESS, and words whose definition is BUSINESS. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.