Vietgle Tra từ – Định nghĩa của từ ‘business’ trong từ điển Lạc Việt

business

business

(bĭzʹnĭs) noun

Abbr. bus.

1.

a. The occupation, work, or trade in which a person is engaged: the wholesale food business. b. A specific occupation or pursuit: the best designer in the business.

2. Commercial, industrial, or professional dealings: new systems now being used in business.

3. A commercial enterprise or establishment: bought his uncle’s business.

4. Volume or amount of commercial trade: Business had fallen off.

5. Commercial dealings; patronage: took her business to a trustworthy salesperson.

6. a. One’s rightful or proper concern or interest: “The business of America is business” (Calvin Coolidge). b. Something involving one personally: It’s none of my business.

7. Serious work or endeavor: got right down to business.

8. An affair or matter: “We will proceed no further in this business” (Shakespeare).

9. An incidental action performed by an actor on the stage to fill a pause between lines or to provide interesting detail.

10. Informal. Verbal abuse; scolding: gave me the business for being late.

11. Obsolete. The condition of being busy.

noun

, attributive.

Often used to modify another noun: a business computer; a business suit.

[Middle English businesse, from bisi, busy. See

busy.]

Synonyms:

business, industry, commerce, trade, traffic. These nouns apply to forms of activity that have the objective of supplying commodities. Business pertains broadly to commercial, financial, and industrial activity: decided to go into the oil business. Industry is the production and manufacture of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale: the computer industry; the arms industry. Commerce and trade refer to the exchange and distribution of goods or commodities: laws regulating interstate commerce; involved in the domestic fur trade; foreign commerce (or trade). Traffic pertains broadly to commercial dealings but in particular to businesses engaged in the transportation of goods or passengers: renovated the docks to attract shipping traffic. The word may also suggest illegal trade, as in narcotics: Traffic in stolen goods was brisk. See also synonyms at affair.

business, industry, commerce, trade, traffic. These nouns apply to forms of activity that have the objective of supplying commodities.pertains broadly to commercial, financial, and industrial activity:is the production and manufacture of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale:andrefer to the exchange and distribution of goods or commodities:(or).pertains broadly to commercial dealings but in particular to businesses engaged in the transportation of goods or passengers:The word may also suggest illegal trade, as in narcotics:See also synonyms at