Business definition

Business as a noun

1. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

   "he bought his brother's business"

   Same sense: business organization, concern, business concern, business organisation

2. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

   "computers are now widely used in business"

   Same sense: business enterprise, commercial enterprise

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

   "he's not in my line of business"

   Same sense: job, line, line of work, occupation

4. a rightful concern or responsibility

   "it's none of your business"

5. an immediate objective

   "gossip was the main business of the evening"

6. the volume of commercial activity

   "business is good today"

7. business concerns collectively

   "Government and business could not agree"

   Same sense: business sector

8. customers collectively

   Same sense: patronage, clientele

9. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

   "his business with the cane was hilarious"

   Same sense: stage business, byplay

Synonyms and antonyms

• business organization
• concern
• business concern
• business organisation
• business enterprise
• commercial enterprise
• job definition
• line definition
• line of work
• occupation
• business sector
• patronage
• clientele
• stage business
• byplay

All synonyms of business, sense by sense

How to say business

Business has 2 syllables and rhymes with agribusiness. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with business

• agribusiness
• nonbusiness

BUSINESS in word games

Scrabble

10

Words With Friends

13

Anagrams

0

Is BUSINESS a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check BUSINESS in the word checker, or unscramble BUSINESS to see the shorter words in its letters.