(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.
Cashier
Definition:
(n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
(v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.
(v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Telemarketers, accountants, sports referees, legal secretaries, and cashiers were found to be among the most likely to lose their jobs, while doctors, preschool teachers, lawyers, artists, and clergy remained relatively safe.
(2) We don’t yet know if they were armed, or whether they took the security officer’s weapon,” he said, adding that the guard and cashier were in shock and were being debriefed by investigators.
(3) Forty-six laser scanner operators were compared with 106 cashiers operating conventional cash registers.
(4) It seems to be better if cashiers have to do different tasks in a supermarket because the study shows that cashiers who work at different workplaces have significantly less pains then those who work only at the cash register.
(5) The weapons were also linked as a contributing factor in more than 60 other deaths, including the death of 17-year-old Darryl Turner, who died in March 2008 after being tasered in the chest for more than 40 seconds at the North Charlotte grocery store where he worked as a cashier.
(6) The response were "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with professional services but not medical expense and cashier attitude.
(7) The supermarket cashier holds out your change and you take it thinking, "This woman squats and spits on the floor while shitting and blowing snot out of her nose."
(8) The Greek government gambled that if it negotiated with us, the ECB would open its cashier windows, relax the rules,” the Dutchman said in a television interview.
(9) He claimed that A Raisin in the Sun, written while Hansberry made a living as a waitress and cashier, "put more of the truth of black people's lives on the stage than any other play in the entire history of theatre".
(10) Outside the confines of the cashier's booth the bookmaking industry might have seemed to many a very male preserve, but Coates was blind to that and the trade appealed to her mathematical mind.
(11) We report a 48-year-old cashier with nickel allergy and hand eczema and discuss the relevance of nickel-induced occupational hand dermatitis in cashiers.
(12) It could be something as banal as buying Belgian chocolate bars at the corner shop and engaging the cashier and staff in the local language.
(13) They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down.
(14) A cashier in one downtown grocery angrily said they have several hundred thousand hryvnyas in change in their basement and they can’t get rid of it.
(15) It’s a human-less experience – no waitstaff, no cashier, no one to get your order wrong and no one to tip.
(16) With these investments, we are leaning into the recovering economy and working to bring everyone along instead of just a few.” President Barack Obama greets cashier Sonia Del Gatto at a Gap store in Manhattan during his unannounced shopping visit in March.
(17) At the cashier, a bill: $45 for a one-hour consultation and $20 for the antibiotics.
(18) They are right about people working and paying tax, but when they start going Muslim this and Muslim that ... it does my head in,” a young cashier tells me.
(19) Three men dressed in black entered the Castelvecchio museum in northern Italy at the evening change of guard on Thursday, tying up and gagging the site’s security officer and a cashier before taking the paintings.
(20) And, it is not frequently on the job but rather on the street, or in a store where a cashier will stop me and say "thanks for what you do".