Definition of business

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Business (n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession..

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Truckman :: Truckman (n.) One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
Holiday :: Holiday (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
Professor :: Professor (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy..
Court :: Court (n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes..
Intendant :: Intendant (n.) One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance..
Gear :: Gear (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern.
Trade :: Trade (v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
Capper :: Capper (n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps.
Sealer :: Sealer (n.) A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.
Deal :: Deal (v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.
Proposal :: Proposal (n.) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract..
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..
Hangman :: Hangman (n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office..
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..
Plumbery :: Plumbery (n.) The business of a plumber.
Streetwalker :: Street (a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses..
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
Preliminary :: Preliminary (a.) Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations..
Concern :: Concern (n.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
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