# 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

## business | American Dictionary

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### businessnoun (BUYING AND SELLING)

### businessnoun (A MATTER)

### businessnoun (THINGS YOU DO)

### Idioms

## business | English

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## Collocations withbusiness

## business

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