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business

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Alternative forms

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bisonessbusinessebusynesseobsolete)
bidnesspronunciation spelling, AAVE)

Etymology

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From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy +‎ -ness. Doublet of busyness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

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Descendants

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Tok Pisin: bisnis
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Albanian: biznes
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Belarusian: бі́знэс

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bíznes

)
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Bulgarian: би́знес

(

bíznes

)
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Czech: businessbyznys
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Dutch: business
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  Indonesian: bisnisbisnes
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Faroese: besnissaður
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Finnish: bisnesbusiness
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French: business
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Haitian Creole: biznis
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Italian: business
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Japanese: ビジネス

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bijinesu

)
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Jersey Dutch: bääznäs
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Marshallese: peejnej
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Moroccan Arabic: بزناس

(

biznās

)
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Newar: बनय्‌ज्या

(

banêjyā

)

, बनेज्या

(

banejyā

)
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Pennsylvania German: Bisniss
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Polish: biznes
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Romanian: bișniță
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Russian: би́знес

(

bíznes

)
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  Armenian: բիզնես
  
  (
  
  biznes
  
  )
- →
  
  Yakut: биисинэс
  
  (
  
  biisines
  
  )
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Slovak: biznis
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Tatar: business
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Ukrainian: бі́знес

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bíznes

)
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Welsh: busnes

Translations

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commercial, industrial or professional activity

Chinese:

Mandarin: 買賣

／

买卖(zh)

(

mǎimài

)
Danish: forretning(da)
c
Dutch: vak(nl)
n
Esperanto: komercoafero(eo)
Finnish: liiketoiminta(fi)yritystoiminta(fi)ala(fi)kauppa(fi)
German: Geschäft(de)
n
Irish: gnó
m
Italian: affari(it)
m pl
Khmer: ជំនួញ(km)
(

cumnuəɲ

)
Latvian: bizness
m
Lithuanian: verslas
m
Malagasy: talidykanonkanona(mg)
Maltese: negozju
Manchu: ᡥᡡᡩᠠ
(

hūda

)
Mongolian: бизнес(mn)
(

biznes

)
Navajo: anaanishnaʼiiniʼ
Persian: کار(fa)
(

kâr

)

, بیزنس

(

biznes

)
Polish: biznes(pl)
m
Portuguese: negócio(pt)
m
Romanian: afacere(ro)
Russian: би́знес(ru)
m

(

bíznɛs

)

, де́ло(ru)

n

(

délo

)
Spanish: negocio(es)
m
Swahili: biashara(sw)
class 9/10
Swedish: företag(sv)
n

, affär(sv)

c

, verksamhet(sv)

c
Ukrainian: бізнес(uk)
m

(

biznes

)

volume or amount of commercial trade

Dutch: zaken(nl)
f pl
Finnish: kauppa(fi)liikevaihto(fi)
Japanese: 景気(ja)
(

keiki

)
Macedonian: промет
m

(

promet

)
Slovak: obchody
m pl

, zákazky

f pl

, biznis
Swahili: biashara(sw)
class 9/10

management of commercial enterprises

Finnish: liikkeenjohtobisnes(fi)liike-elämä(fi)
Slovak: manažmentpodnikanie
Swahili: biashara(sw)
class 9/10
Swedish: verksamhet(sv)
c

objective or a matter needing to be dealt with

Finnish: asia(fi)tehtävä(fi)
(

task

)

, homma(fi)
Hebrew: עִנְיָן(he)
m

(

‘inyán

)
Slovak: vec(sk)záležitosť

something involving one personally

Czech: záležitost(cs)
f

, věc(cs)

f
Dutch: zaken(nl)
f pl
Finnish: asia(fi)
German: Angelegenheit(de)
f
Hebrew: עִנְיָן(he)
m

(

‘inyán

)
Indonesian:
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Macedonian: работа(mk)
f

(

rabota

)
Malagasy: tadidy(mg)
Mongolian: хэрэг(mn)
(

xereg

)
Ngazidja Comorian: shuhuli
Norwegian:

Bokmål: sak(no)

n

, anliggende(no)

n
Polish: sprawa(pl)
f

, interes(pl)

m
Russian: де́ло(ru)
n

(

délo

)
Slovak: vec(sk)starosť
Spanish: asunto(es)
m
Swedish: angelägenhet(sv)
c

, affär(sv)

c

, sak(sv)

c

matters that come before a body for deliberation or action

Finnish: asiat(fi)
pl
Swedish: ärende(sv)
n

, sak(sv)

c

business class

Dutch: businessclass(nl)
m
Finnish: bisnes(fi)
Polish: biznes(pl)
m
Swahili: biashara(sw)
class 9/10
Swedish: affärsklass
c

action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing

Norwegian:

Bokmål: business

m

collective noun for a group of ferrets

Esperanto: furaro
Finnish: lauma(fi)
Swahili: biashara(sw)
class 9/10

slang: something very good

Finnish: asia(fi)

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Norman: (please verify) tinné
m

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Jersey

)
Welsh: (please verify) busnes(cy)
m or f

Adjective

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business

Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
- 1897, Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee, Sound Currency‎[5], volume 4-5, page cclii:
  , Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee,, volume 4-5, page cclii:
  
  They are solely business instruments. Every man’s relation to them is purely a business relation. His use of them is purely a business use.
- 1963, The China Governess‎[6]:Margery Allingham , chapter 10, in
  
  With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
- 1996, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, American Law Reports: Annotations and Cases‎[7], volume 35, page 432:
  , Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company,, volume 35, page 432:
  
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  the fact that the injured party came to the insured premises for solely business purposes precluded any reliance on the non-business pursuits exception (§ 1 1 2[b]).
- 2003, Marvin Snider, Compatibility Breeds Success: How to Manage Your Relationship with Your Business Partner‎[8], page 298:
  , Marvin Snider,, page 298:
  
  Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solely business partnerships.
Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.
Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
- 1889, The Clothier and furnisher‎[9], volume 19, page 38:
  , volume 19, page 38:
  
  He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
- 1909, Business Administration: Business Practice‎[10], La Salle Extension University, page 77:
  , La Salle Extension University, page 77:
  
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  and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.
- 1927, “Making of America Project”, in Harper’s Magazine‎[11], volume 154, page 502:
  , “Making of America Project”, in, volume 154, page 502:
  
  Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughly business men and worked for profit.
- 2009, Frank Channing Haddock, Business Power: Supreme Business Laws and Maxims that Win Wealth‎[12], page 231:
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  The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughly business manner.
Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
- 1867, Tinsley’s Magazine‎[13], page 430:Edmund Hodgson Yates (editor), “Amiens”, in, page 430:
  
  Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.
- 2013 June 8, “The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
  June 8, “ Obama goes troll-hunting ”, in, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
  
  According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.