Meaning of business in English
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businessnoun (SELLING)
- close downWith sales down, the company closed one factory down and reduced the workforce at another.
- closeMany of the shops in the High Street have closed recently.
- shut downThe bookshop is shutting down after 25 years of business.
- shutUKSeveral of the bank’s local branches are shutting.
- shut up shopUKThe seaside businesses all shut up shop during the winter.
- go/put out of businessMy favourite ice cream shop went out of business last summer.
- Many things make it difficult for women to reach the top in US business.
- The way to be successful in business is always to stay one jumpahead of yourcompetitors.
- What can Europeancompanieslearn from Japanese business practices?
- She runs her own printing business.
- They put a lot of money into the family business.
- all-you-can-eat
- anti-consumer
- anti-dumping
- back order
- barter
- dealership
- desk research
- distribution channel
- do business with someone/something
- dumping
- ebay
- hock
- package deal
- pawn
- pre-emption
- pre-order
- procurement
- tender
- the bottom drops/falls out of the marketidiom
- window shopping
businessnoun (COMPANY)
- acquiree
- acquirer
- acquiror
- agency
- answering service
- clicks and mortaridiom
- conglomerate
- enterprise
- est.
- estate agent
- financial technology
- fintech
- org
- organizational
- organizationally
- parent company
- partner upphrasal verb
- white-shoe
- wholly owned
- zombie company
businessnoun (WORK)
- act as somethingphrasal verb
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at workidiom
- graft
- grind
- hot desk
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of dutyidiom
- moonlight
- short-staffed
- skivvy
- slack
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- undertaking
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businessnoun (MATTER)
- The advertisingworld can be a very cut-throat business.
- It was a ghastly business all round.
- If you try any funny business you’ll be sorry.
- Eating spaghetti can be a messy business.
- I was more than a little curious about the whole business.
- affair
- backyard
- bailiwick
- centrism
- con
- convention
- cover ground
- field
- front
- issue
- sphere
- sub-field
- sub-theme
- subject
- subtopic
- talk
- talking of someone/somethingidiom
- talking point
- thematically
- thesis
businessnoun (THINGS YOU DO)
- In spite of last night’s terroristattack, most peopleseem to be going about their business as if nothing had happened.
- “Where have you been?” “Mind your own business!”
- I was just motoring along, minding my own business, when suddenly I was stopped by the police.
- How you choose to conductyourprivatelife is your own business!
- He’s an interferingoldbusybody – who I go out with is none of his business!
- affair
- backyard
- bailiwick
- centrism
- con
- convention
- cover ground
- field
- front
- issue
- sphere
- sub-field
- sub-theme
- subject
- subtopic
- talk
- talking of someone/somethingidiom
- talking point
- thematically
- thesis
businessnoun (OF ACTORS)
- One of the performerscontributes some very funny business with a pair of mirrors.
- There is an early scene in which he enters his new home and hastilycleans a chair before sitting on it. Normally, this would be a throwawaybit of business that would passunnoticed.
- act outphrasal verb
- am-dram
- amateur theater
- appearance
- blocking
- camp
- camp it upphrasal verb
- chew
- enact
- improvise
- offstage
- portrayal
- re-enact
- recreation
- rep
- restage
- stage business
- stage fright
- understudy
- unperformable
Idioms
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businessnoun (BUYING AND SELLING)
businessnoun (A MATTER)
businessnoun (THINGS YOU DO)
Idioms
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