Business
//ˈbɪz.nɪs//
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The word "business" can be used as noun and adjective.
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M-business Shoah business agri-business agribusiness agrobusiness agrobusinessman antibusiness any other business bad business big business biz bizfluencer bizopp bleisure book of business business English business administration business analyst business angel business architect business as usual business before pleasure business boy business card business case business casual business class business continuity planning business cost business cycle business day business deal business development business district business economics business end business ethics business failure business formal business girl business hours business idea business in the front, party in the back business index business intelligence business is business business key business law business logic business lunch business machine business man business model business name business object business opportunity business owner business park business partner business plan business practice business record business reply business risk business rule business school business studies business suit business trip business trust business unit business venture business-as-usual business-casual business-critical business-friendliness business-friendly business-like business-man business-to-business business-to-business-to-consumer business-to-consumer business-to-employee business-to-institutions businesscrat businessese businessfolk businessless businesslike businessly businessman businessness businessperson businessplace businesswear businesswide businesswise businesswoman businessworthy businessy by-business cannabusiness central business district close of business core business crypto business cyberbusiness dirty business do a land-office business do business do one's business do someone's business e-business ease of doing business index edubusiness family business farm business tenancy fesnyng funny business genteel business get down to business give someone the business go about one's business have no business in business in the business of it's none of your business leg business like it's nobody's business like nobody's business line of business make it one's business mean business megabusiness microbusiness mind one's business mind one's own business mind-your-own-business mix business with pleasure monkey business multibusiness non-business nonbusiness none of someone's business order of business ordinary course of business out of business personal business place of business prebusiness pro-business probusiness send about one's business show biz show business showbiz showbusiness small business sorry business stage business stand on business stick to business stroke of business superbusiness take care of business take one's business elsewhere telebusiness the business there's no business like show business unfinished business we appreciate your business women's business zombie business
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activity advocacy amount appendix animals bee's knees business class businesslike busy busy people busyness ceo cities city coach collective noun commerce commercial companies company company commerce company firm company unit conducive conduct corporate corporate group corporate stuff corporation customers deal with downtown economic economic entity economics economy employees endeavor enterprise entertainment entity establishment excrement ferrets financial financial activity firm first class for profit form form busy free free enterprise good governance group hollywood industrial industry interest job major maker making making money money money making money organization money venture negotiation objective occupation office office work organization owned owned work patronage people personally pertaining place private private enterprise profession professional professional organization profit profit maker prop quality related related busy retail retail establishment root root busy situation store stuff top trade unit university university major utilized venture vocation volume work work company work negotiation work place work related workers
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accumulate family wealth benefiting community benefiting consumers buy thing concealing illegal activities creating wealth earn money exchanging service for money generating wealth make living make money making money making products making profit organisation providing employment providing service selling product selling things
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