(n.) 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.
(n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.
(n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
(n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
(n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
(n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
(n.) Care; anxiety; diligence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(3) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(4) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(5) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(6) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(7) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(8) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(9) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(10) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(11) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(12) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(13) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(14) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(15) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(16) "As part of this de-leveraging process, the group will also focus on eliminating any loss-making businesses."
(17) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(18) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(19) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(20) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
Businesslike
Definition:
(a.) In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a black tie, Pistorius, 27, carried a black briefcase, and looked more composed and businesslike than at last year's bail hearings.
(2) He first encountered May when the pair stood against each other in the safe Labour seat of Durham in 1992, and recalled her as “very competent, very serious, very businesslike”.
(3) This violence comes from multiple sources, but some prominent ones appear to be the businesslike operations of crack distribution, the personal disorganization that surrounds and characterizes the crack-consuming environment, and the distortions of character that crack users describe as often accompanying significant binges of crack consumption.
(4) On that basis, the Democrat narrowly deserves to be re-elected … For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don't believe most of what he says.
(5) [...] Western diplomats have said they were impressed by Zarif's businesslike approach at the foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday and said he put "new ideas" on the table that they did not describe.
(6) Breathes's desk at Westword HQ is a classic American office cubicle, sober and businesslike, even though the shelves around his computer are filled with cigarette papers and joint holders.
(7) But it shouldn’t be too much to ask for cordial and businesslike relations to be established with Jewish groups.
(8) These were very businesslike discussions,” says one White House official.
(9) He has already said relations are going to be more businesslike , while Alexander has said the Liberal Democrats can no longer rely on the public learning about the differences within the coalition by osmosis.
(10) After his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said "the discussions were very substantive, businesslike," adding he hoped a solution could be found in a timely fashion.
(11) It is also possible that the next general round of improvement will result from the application of businesslike information management and marketing techniques.
(12) I think they have always been that way, but you have to be businesslike and professional and you have to work with people who aren't your natural bedfellows and that is being grownup in politics."
(13) Common to many of these problems is the lack of a businesslike orientation to RDFs and, in particular, lack of careful financial planning and management.
(14) In his campaign speech on Monday, Noda gave notice of a moderate, businesslike style of leadership, citing a Japanese poem to describe himself as more of a loach – a bottom-feeding freshwater fish – than a goldfish.
(15) "We are not going to leverage the value of the investments that we do make, unless we start to behave in a more businesslike and coherent way across the police service," said one contributor.
(16) The atmosphere was businesslike and meetings will continue this afternoon."
(17) New Labour is determined to bring a businesslike approach to Government and today, only ten days in to our term of office, I am launching a New Mission Statement for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
(18) Even clad in casual clothing and past retirement age, she retained a businesslike demeanor.
(19) Villa spent the first 10 minutes bemused by the movement and interchangeability of Chelsea's three-quarter line of Oscar, Willian and Eden Hazard as the visitors opened the game with businesslike intent, moving the ball around purposefully and always appearing to have a spare man.
(20) Picking up points against a Chelsea side beginning to look lean and businesslike again seemed a tall order.