(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.
Promissory
Definition:
(a.) Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bruton said that an EU deal on the Anglo Irish "promissory notes" was an important element in the overall recovery plan not just for Ireland but for Europe as a whole.
(2) Novo would sit next to him on the bus and “inhale, with a retrospective and promissory delight, the emanations of gasoline next to his body”.
(3) Johnjoe McFadden correctly points out that molecular genetics has yet to deliver on its expensive promissory notes ( Genes?
(4) After Ireland secured a deal on the so-called promissory notes to bondholders of the defunct Anglo Irish Bank, some have been urging Enda Kenny and his coalition partners to spend the saved €1bn on capital building projects to help stimulate domestic demand in the republic.
(5) Such changes would also be difficult to cover through what would effectively be a promissory note concerning post-referendum changes to labour and social legislation.
(6) He pursues this theme by placing together some of Morris's hand-carved wood blocks with the intricately self-printed promissory notes and share certificates in which Russian wealth was hastily divided in 1992.
(7) That will disappoint Dublin, which has long been pleading for a reduction in the interest rate it is being forced to pay on the "promissory notes" issued to rescue its banking sector.
(8) On 19 October 1929, just five days before the first stock market crash and 10 days before Black Tuesday, Scott Fitzgerald published a now-forgotten story called "The Swimmers," about an American working for the ironically named Promissory Trust Bank, and his realisation that American ideals have been corrupted by money.
(9) Martin Luther King spoke about the promissory note of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the very tenets this country was built on.
(10) Lenovo will pay $660m in cash, $750m in Lenovo shares, plus a $1.5bn three-year promissory note.
(11) There are so many big fundamental things happening that a promissory note of some kind to Britain may well finish up not being honoured.
(12) "That's why the €3.1bn promissory note payment due to be paid to Anglo Irish Bank on Monday is not being paid but is being replaced by long-term government bonds and the wider negotiations will continue."
(13) The Irish government, and in particular the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, have consistently claimed that fellow EU states, notably Germany, have promised funds to reduce the costs of repaying the so-called Anglo "promissory notes".