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Bookkeeping :: Bookkeeping (n.) The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger..

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack..

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..

Remove :: Remove (n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move..

Industry :: Industry (n.) Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them..

Procure :: Procure (v. i.) To manage business for another in court.

Hong :: Hong (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage..

Matter :: Matter (n.) That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business..

Merchandise :: Merchandise (n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Task :: Task (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

Bookbinding :: Bookbinding (n.) The art, process, or business of binding books..

Legislative :: Legislative (a.) Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style..

Cursitor :: Cursitor (n.) An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs..

Holiday :: Holiday (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.

Board :: Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..

Uninterested :: Uninterested (a.) Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business..

Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..

Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well..

Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water..

Plumbery :: Plumbery (n.) The business of a plumber.

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