Synonyms for business
Another word for business is business organization, concern or business concern. Below are 15 synonyms and 30 related words across 9 senses.
Also searched as: businesses.
1. noun: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- business organization
- concern synonyms
- business concern
- business organisation
2. noun: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
- business enterprise
- commercial enterprise
3. noun: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- job synonyms
- line synonyms
- line of work
- occupation synonyms
4. noun: a rightful concern or responsibility
5. noun: an immediate objective
6. noun: the volume of commercial activity
7. noun: business concerns collectively
- business sector
8. noun: customers collectively
- patronage synonyms
- clientele
9. noun: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
- stage business
- byplay
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- house synonyms
- agency synonyms
- firm synonyms
- business firm
- chain synonyms
- manufacturing business
- partnership
- enterprise synonyms
- franchise
- carrier synonyms
- common carrier
- maker synonyms
- manufacturer synonyms
- processor synonyms
- dealership
- building
- field synonyms
- line of business synonyms
- industry synonyms
- construction synonyms
- field of operation
- real-estate business
- transport synonyms
- finance
- transportation synonyms
- storage synonyms
- advertising synonyms
- shipping synonyms
- fishing
- publication
Business in word games
- Letters
- 8
- Scrabble
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble BUSINESS
- Is BUSINESS a word?
- Words starting with B
Questions people ask
What is another word for business?
You can say business organization, concern, business concern, business organisation or business enterprise instead of business. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it".
What is the opposite of business?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for business; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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