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BUSINESS, n. biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. Business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. Business is also any temporary employment.

1. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.

2. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention.

You are so much the business of our souls.

3. Serious engagement; important occupation,in distinction from trivial affairs.

It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.

4. Concern; right of action or interposing.

"What business has a man with the disputes of others?"

5. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.

Fitness to govern is a perplexed business.

6. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town.

They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.

7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.

To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.




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BUSINESS, n. biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. Business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. Business is also any temporary employment.

1. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.

2. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention.

You are so much the business of our souls.

3. Serious engagement; important occupation,in distinction from trivial affairs.

It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.

4. Concern; right of action or interposing.

"What business has a man with the disputes of others?"

5. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.

Fitness to govern is a perplexed business.

6. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town.

They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.

7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.

To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.


BUS'I-NESS, n. [biz'ness. See Busy.]

  1. Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement – a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. Business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. Business is also any temporary employment.
  2. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.
  3. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention. You are so much the business of our souls. – Dryden.
  4. Serious engagement; important occupation, in distinction from trivial affairs. It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.
  5. Concern; right of action or interposing; as, what business has a man with the disputes of others?
  6. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered. Fitness to govern is a perplexed business. – Bacon.
  7. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town. They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one. – Judges.
  8. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients. To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.

Busi"ness
  1. That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

    Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
    Luke ii. 49.

  2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.

    "The business of instruction." Prescott.
  3. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

    It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business.
    Bp. Popteus.

  4. That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.

    The daughter of the King of France,
    On serious business, craving quick despatch,
    Importunes personal conference.
    Shak.

    What business has the tortoise among the clouds?
    L'Estrange.

  5. Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.

    It was a gentle business, and becoming
    The action of good women.
    Shak.

    Bestow
    Your needful counsel to our business.
    Shak.

  6. The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
  7. Care; anxiety; diligence.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.

    To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.] Wycherley. -- To make (a thing) one's business, to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.] -- To mean business, to be earnest. [Colloq.]

    Syn. -- Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement; employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession; vocation; office; duty.

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Business

BUSINESS, noun biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. business is also any temporary employment.

1. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.

2. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention.

You are so much the business of our souls.

3. Serious engagement; important occupation, in distinction from trivial affairs.

It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.

4. Concern; right of action or interposing.

'What business has a man with the disputes of others?'

5. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.

Fitness to govern is a perplexed business

6. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town.

They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.

7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.

To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.

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