A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it:
— He bought his brother's business.
— A small mom-and-pop business.
— A racially integrated business concern.

synoniemen: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern.

Roget 151: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent.    business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion) 143.    the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day; course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents etc. (chance) 156; situation etc. (circumstances) 8.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 692: conduct [actions of an individual agent]; behavior; deportment, comportment; carriage, maintien^†, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance.    dealing, transaction etc. (action) 680; business etc. 625.    tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship; strategy, strategics^†; plan etc. 626.    management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage; regime; economy, economics; political economy; government etc. (direction) 693.    execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.    course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method &c.; path etc. 627.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 454: subject of thought, material for thought; food for the mind, mental pabulum.    subject, subject matter; matter, theme, noemata [Gr.], topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem etc. (question) 461.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 622: pursuit; pursuing etc. v.; prosecution; pursuance; enterprise etc. (undertaking) 676; business etc. 625; adventure etc. (essay) 675; quest etc. (search) 461; scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt.    chase, hunt, battue^†, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar (Geog loc:India). pursuer; hunter, huntsman; shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod; hound etc. 366.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: bedrijf
Pools: koncern

The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects:
— Computers are now widely used in business.

synoniemen: business enterprise, commercial enterprise.

Roget 794: barter, exchange, scorse^†, truck system; interchange etc. 148.    a Roland for an Oliver; quid pro quo; commutation, composition; Indian gift [U.S.].    trade, commerce, mercature^†, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination^†, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing^†, agiotage^†, brokery^†.    deal, dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain.    free trade.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: zaken, zakenleven, onderneming, klandizie, businessclass, zaak, bedrijf, vak
Pools: interes

The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money:
— He's not in my line of business.

synoniemen: job, line, line of work, occupation.

Roget 680: action, performance; doing, etc. v.; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor etc. (exertion) 686; praxis, execution; procedure etc. (conduct) 692; handicraft; business etc. 625; agency etc. (power at work) 170.    deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction^†, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat [Fr.]; tour de force etc. (display) 882; feat, exploit; achievement etc. (completion) 729; handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy etc. (plan) 626.    actor etc. (doer) 690.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 625: business, occupation, employment; pursuit etc. 622; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.    matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty etc. 926.    part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.    office, place, post, chargeship^†, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service etc. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking etc. 676.    vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade etc. (commerce) 794.    exercise; work etc. (action) 680; avocation; press of business etc. (activity) 682.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: baan, beroep, betrekking, dienstverband, functie, job, métier, positie, post, professie, stiel, vak, werk ... meer laten zien
Pools: zatrudnienie, praca, robota

A rightful concern or responsibility.

An immediate objective.

The volume of commercial activity.

Pools: biznes

Business concerns collectively:
— Government and business could not agree.

synoniem: business sector.

Nederlands: bedrijfsleven, privé-sector, privésector, zakenleven

Customers collectively.

synoniemen: clientele, patronage.

Nederlands: cliënteel, klantenbestand
Pools: klientela

Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect:
— His business with the cane was hilarious.

synoniemen: byplay, stage business.