(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.
Cutlery
Definition:
(n.) The business of a cutler.
(n.) Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) We should welcome the change in the cutlery rule because it marginally improves the chances of sustaining public support for more serious security measures.
(2) The two of them were building towers with wooden blocks, but they got bored of that and decided to start introducing other objects – a camera, some cutlery, a glass of water – to the tower.
(3) Memorabilia - ranging from the mail sacks to some of the cutlery they used as they hid out - will be on display.
(4) If you were a man, and not incompetent, you would eventually be sent to see the editor, Max – Max Hastings, a frightening person who writes very well on war and rather less well on British Airways cutlery – to discuss a possible promotion to the news desk.
(5) He can just about feed himself with special cutlery, as long as the food is soft and cut up small.
(6) Silver-plated cutlery may also be a source of adventitious chromium in the diets of these post-menopausal subjects.
(7) The cases and means of homicidal cases were classified by cutlery and pointed weapons: 243 cases, strangulation and throttling: 104 cases, blunt or similar ones: 96 cases, fire arms (pistol or hunting gun): 35 cases, poisoning: 8 cases, murder by fire: 4 cases, and 6 other cases.
(8) From my father’s side the treasures included: a stuffed canary; a tiny stuffed crocodile (a gharial , taken from the Ganges); some crested china bought in seaside resorts; and a canteen of excellent cutlery given as a wedding present in 1899 and never taken from its box.
(9) The total bacterial count per item for crockery and cutlery exceeded the desired limit by five to 6400 times, whilst the count for utensils was also exceeded by over 100 times in both years.
(10) In John Lewis , union flag cutlery sales were up 22% and 30% of the bestselling cushions were emblazoned with the flag.
(11) Coins were found in 8 patients, toys in 3, pins and needles in 6, chicken bones and fish bones in 15, and toothpicks, shaving blades, cutlery, dentures, plastic bag containing cocaine, parts of a foam rubber mattress and other items in the remainder.
(12) This is the test to which, for a variety of reasons, the west has responded poorly in recent years, exemplified by the airline ban on the use of metal cutlery.
(13) Ninety-one percent knew there were no risks from touching and 80% no risks from sharing cutlery and crockery.
(14) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
(15) On the ground, his influence can be seen in everything from compostable cutlery and crockery to hybrid campus shuttles and free staff commuter buses at the 39,000-employee global headquarters in Redmond, Washington .
(16) Efforts should also be made to teach people about the effectiveness of condoms as a precaution against serotransmission and to reassure people that HIV infection is unlikely to result from contacts with towels, cutlery, toilet seats, or from caring for AIDS victims.
(17) They arrive in a bustle with a crackle of paper bags and soon the meeting room table is festooned with salad boxes and plastic cutlery.
(18) We walk past a pond, at the centre of which stands a sculpture made up of bronze cutlery: a knife, a fork, a spoon.
(19) The chances of a terrorist successfully hijacking an aircraft by threatening passengers or crew with a table knife are now deemed negligible by the British government, which some weeks ago authorised airlines to resume using metal cutlery.
(20) His mother insisted that his death was accidental, part of an experiment to silver plate a spoon – he had previously gold plated another piece of cutlery by stripping the gold from a pocket watch – with the chemicals found in a pot on the stove.