business

business (nominative singular)
businessy (nominative plural)
businessu (genitive singular)
businessů (genitive plural)
businessu (dative singular)
businessům (dative plural)
business (accusative singular)
businessy (accusative plural)
businesse (singular vocative)
businessy (plural vocative)
businesse (locative singular)
businessu (locative singular)
businessech (locative plural)
businessem (instrumental singular)
businessy (instrumental plural)


business

Onder de bezielende leiding van Pierre Vinken is de wetenschappelijke tak uitgegroeid tot de core business van RELX.

Under the inspiring leadership of Pierre Vinken, the scientific branch has grown into the core business of RELX.

business (commercial activity or specific commercial enterprise)


business

I left my father's business.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.

2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

He is in the motor and insurance businesses.

I'm going to Las Vegas on business.

(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!

We do business all over the world.

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

Business has been slow lately.

They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

The volume or amount of commercial trade.

I shall take my business elsewhere.

(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.

Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

I studied business at Harvard.

(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.

The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.

[1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1908, →OCLC, signature [E.ii.], verso:

(countable) A particular situation or activity.

Our principal business here is to get drunk.

Let's get down to business.

To know the naturall cause of Sense, is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have els-where written of the same at large.

1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Chapter I: Of Sense”, in Leviathanᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ:

(countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.

That's none of your business.

(uncountable) Something involving one personally.

If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.

(uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,[…]

1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, page 154:

(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

The business with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.

1983, Peter Thomson, Shakespeare's Theatre, →ISBN, page 155:

(acting, theater) Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”)..

I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage.

2004, Dave Duncan, The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades, →ISBN, page 252:

(countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

These new phones are the business!

(slang, British) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

Your ferret left his business all over the floor.

As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.

(slang, uncountable) The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.

I haven't seen cartoons giving someone the business since the 1990s.

(Australian Aboriginal) matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)

matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)

en-noun

business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

business in the front, party in the back

Tok Pisin: bisnis

→ Albanian: biznes

→ Belarusian: бі́знэс (bíznes)

→ Bulgarian: би́знес (bíznes)

→ Czech: business, byznys

→ Dutch: business

→ Indonesian: bisnis, bisnes

→ Faroese: besnissaður

→ Finnish: bisnes, business

→ French: business

→ Haitian Creole: biznis

→ Italian: business

→ Japanese: ビジネス (bijinesu)

→ Jersey Dutch: bääznäs

→ Marshallese: peejnej

→ Moroccan Arabic: بزناس (biznās)

desc

→ Newar: बनय्ज्या (banêjyā), बनेज्या (banejyā)

→ Pennsylvania German: Bisniss

→ Polish: biznes

→ Romanian: bișniță

desctree

→ Russian: би́знес (bíznes)
→ Armenian: բիզնես (biznes)
→ Yakut: биисинэс (biisines)

→ Slovak: biznis

→ Spanish: bisnes

→ Tatar: business

→ Ukrainian: бі́знес (bíznes)

→ Welsh: busnes

買賣

commercial, industrial or professional activity

elinkeinoelämä

private commercial interests taken collectively

asia

objective or a matter needing to be dealt with

asiat

matters that come before a body for deliberation or action

business

action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing

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

inh

Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”)


business

Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.

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.

1897, Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee, Sound Currency, volumes 4-5, page cclii:

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.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

[…] 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]).

1996, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, American Law Reports: Annotations and Cases, volume 35, page 432:

Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solely business partnerships.

2003, Marvin Snider, Compatibility Breeds Success: How to Manage Your Relationship with Your Business Partner, page 298:

Of, to, pertaining to, or used for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.

1889, The Clothier and furnisher, volume 19, page 38:

[…] and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.

1909, Business Administration: Business Practice, La Salle Extension University, page 77:

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.

1927, “Making of America Project”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 154, page 502:

The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughly business manner.

2009, Frank Channing Haddock, Business Power: Supreme Business Laws and Maxims that Win Wealth, page 231:

Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.

Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.

1867, “Amiens”, in Edmund Hodgson Yates, editor, Tinsley's Magazine, page 430:

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.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.


business

fi-decl-table

business (type vastaus)

business (type vastaus)

business (nominative singular)
bisnekset (nominative plural)
bisneksen (genitive singular)
bisneksien (genitive plural)
bisnesten (genitive plural)
bisnestä (partitive singular)
bisneksiä (partitive plural)
business (accusative singular)
bisneksen (accusative singular)
bisnekset (accusative plural)
bisneksessä (inessive singular)
bisneksissä (inessive plural)
bisneksestä (elative singular)
bisneksistä (elative plural)
bisnekseen (illative singular)
bisneksiin (illative plural)
bisneksellä (adessive singular)
bisneksillä (adessive plural)
bisnekseltä (ablative singular)
bisneksiltä (ablative plural)
bisnekselle (allative singular)
bisneksille (allative plural)
bisneksenä (essive singular)
bisneksinä (essive plural)
bisnekseksi (singular translative)
bisneksiksi (plural translative)
bisneksettä (abessive singular)
bisneksittä (abessive plural)
bisneksin (instructive plural)
bisneksineen (comitative plural)
business (nominative singular)
businekset (nominative plural)
busineksen (genitive singular)
busineksien (genitive plural)
businesten (genitive plural)
businesta (partitive singular)
busineksia (partitive plural)
business (accusative singular)
busineksen (accusative singular)
businekset (accusative plural)
busineksessa (inessive singular)
busineksissa (inessive plural)
busineksesta (elative singular)
busineksista (elative plural)
businekseen (illative singular)
busineksiin (illative plural)
busineksella (adessive singular)
busineksilla (adessive plural)
businekselta (ablative singular)
busineksilta (ablative plural)
businekselle (allative singular)
busineksille (allative plural)
busineksena (essive singular)
busineksina (essive plural)
businekseksi (singular translative)
busineksiksi (plural translative)
busineksetta (abessive singular)
busineksitta (abessive plural)
busineksin (instructive plural)
busineksineen (comitative plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English business.


business

(business, education) Alternative spelling of biznes

business (nominative singular)
businessy (nominative plural)
businessu (genitive singular)
businessów (genitive plural)
businessowi (dative singular)
businessom (dative plural)
business (accusative singular)
businessy (accusative plural)
businessem (instrumental singular)
businessami (instrumental plural)
businessie (locative singular)
businessach (locative plural)
businessie (singular vocative)
businessy (plural vocative)


business

businessuri (plural)
business (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un business (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
businessul (accusative definite nominative singular)
businessuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște businessuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
businessurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
business (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui business (dative genitive indefinite singular)
businessului (dative definite genitive singular)
businessuri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor businessuri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
businessurilor (dative definite genitive plural)
businessule (singular vocative)
businessurilor (plural vocative)

From Unadapted borrowing from English business.


business

business (nominative)
businessnıñ (genitive)
businessga (dative)
businessnı (accusative)
businessda (locative)
businessdan (ablative)