(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.
Crepe
Definition:
(n.) Same as Crape.
Example Sentences:
(1) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
(2) Following sclerotherapy of varicose veins, 158 limbs of 154 patients were randomized to be bandaged with either crepe or Coban for 6 weeks each, or with Coban for 3 days only.
(3) In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe.
(4) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
(5) All had crepe pressure bandage from the base of the toes to the groin for the first 24 hours followed by TED stockings for six to eight weeks.
(6) She was also honing the cookery skills she had learned from her mother, setting up a crepe business catering for parties and nightclubs.
(7) Hanging of crepe refers to one type of strategy employed by physicians in communicating prognoses to families of critically ill patients.
(8) Shoppers can find a range of products from £30 T-shirts to silk crepe gowns worth thousands and will continue to be run as an independent entity alongside Richemont's other luxury goods businesses, which also include Chloe handbags as well as top-end watch brands such as Vacheron Constantin and Jaeger-LeCoultre.
(9) None of these has been shown to be effective except usage of a crepe bandage for Australian elapid bite.
(10) Tightly rolled bandages and folded bandages without the crepe bandage interposition could not be reliably sterilized.
(11) We present a patient who developed urticaria and hypotension after ingestion of buckwheat crepes.
(12) We have illustrated our crepe-ribbon representation by comparing two phospholipase A2 structures in the Brookhaven National Laboratory Protein Data Bank.
(13) That's a good principle," said the 46-year-old from Arnhem, adding that as a little boy, on the monarch's birthday he would cover his bicycle in orange crepe paper.
(14) Among ideas put into practice were water bottles used as spacers – the chamber between an inhaler canister and patient's mouth which increases the amount of medicine delivered to the right place – for children suffering from asthma attacks and a satisfactory post-operative support system made out of old crepe bandages.
(15) We describe a method to generate a novel representation for protein structures called "crepe ribbons."
(16) Prognostication, an alternative approach to physician-family communication, appears to be strategically and morally superior to the hanging-of-crepe strategy.
(17) Photograph: Pål Hansen Cook it for another minute until it has a nice golden colour (I hate anaemic crepes).
(18) When the voice I use to talk to myself is draped with mourning crepe.
(19) Delicious crepes and galettes , and Breton cider, are found on other stalls.
(20) Satisfactory sterility was achieved by rolling the Esmarch loosely, with a standard crepe bandage interposed between layers.