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How to pronounce business in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern
Type of enterprise
Has types manufacturing business, house, underperformer, agency, manufacturer, dealership, shipbuilder, brokerage, chain, common carrier, carrier, firm, business firm, processor, partnership, maker, franchise


he bought his brother's business.
a small mom-and-pop business.
a racially integrated business concern.
Type Words
Synonyms byplay, stage business
Type of performing, playacting, acting, playing
Has types schtick, shtik, shtick, schtik


his business with the cane was hilarious.
Type Words
Synonyms job, line, line of work, occupation
Type of activity
Has types employment, craft, confectionery, medium, salt mine, land, game, farming, biz, office, metier, photography, place, profession, position, post, work, situation, sport, spot, billet, catering, accountancy, berth, trade, appointment, treadmill, career, accounting, calling, vocation


he's not in my line of business.
Type Words
Synonyms business sector
Type of sector
Has types big business


Government and business could not agree.
Type Words
Synonyms clientele, patronage
Type of people
Type Words
Synonyms business enterprise, commercial enterprise
Type of commercialism, commerce, mercantilism
Has types tourism, advertising, agribusiness, agriculture, building, butchering, butchery, construction, discount business, employee-owned business, employee-owned enterprise, factory farm, field, field of operation, finance, fishing, industry, line of business, manufacture, packaging, printing, publication, publicizing, publishing, real-estate business, shipping, storage, touristry, transport, transportation, venture


computers are now widely used in business.
Type Words
Type of target, object, objective, aim
Has types occasions


gossip was the main business of the evening.
Type Words
Type of vexation, worry, concern, headache


it's none of your business.
mind your own business.
Type Words
Type of commercial activity, business activity
Has types patronage, land-office business, trade


business is good today.
show me where the business was today.

Examples of business

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Telephone and television service in the business was temporarily out of service.
From the tennessean.com
Busch IV, 46, joined the family business in the mid-1980s and worked his way up.
From the dailyherald.com
Business Insider suggests waiting to buy until the ultimate version is released.
From the stltoday.com
During the workshop, they discussed ways for the city to bring in more business.
From the stltoday.com
Participants can make more business contacts at this speed networking breakfast.
From the stltoday.com
Today, the Roundup-resistance trait is at the heart of Monsanto's seed business.
From the stltoday.com
In the last quarter, Monsanto's Roundup and glyphosate business fell 56 percent.
From the stltoday.com
The IRS will be looking carefully, too, at hobby expense versus a real business.
From the newsday.com
The deficit-neutral bill also provided $12 billion in small-business tax breaks.
From the thenewstribune.com
More examples
  • A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"
  • Commercial enterprise: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"
  • Occupation: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
  • A rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
  • An immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening"
  • The volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
  • A business (also known as acompany, enterprise, and firm') is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods or services, or both, to consumers, businesses and governmental entities. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies. Most businesses are privately owned. ...
  • Business is the debut EP from New Jersey, Pop-Rock band Jet Lag Gemini, Official Website. Recorded in Madison, NJ at Northshore Studios when two of the band members were still 15 years old, the EP was released June 6, 2006 on Doghouse Records.
  • Business (Russian: u0411u0438u0301u0437u043Du0435u0441; Ukrainian: u0411u0456u0437u043Du0435u0441) is a Ukrainian Russian-language weekly business newspaper published every Monday.