business

Etymology
From, , , , from , equivalent to. .

Noun

 * 1)  A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
 * 2)  A person's occupation, work, or trade.
 * 3)  Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
 * 4)  The volume or amount of commercial trade.
 * 5)  One's dealings; patronage.
 * 6)  Private commercial interests taken collectively.
 * 7)  The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
 * 8)  A particular situation or activity.
 * 9)  Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
 * 10)  Something involving one personally.
 * 11)  Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
 * 12)  Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
 * 13)  Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
 * 14)   a group of ferrets.
 * 15)  Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
 * 16)  The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
 * 17)  Disruptive shenanigans.
 * 18)  matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)
 * 1)  The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
 * 2)  A particular situation or activity.
 * 3)  Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
 * 4)  Something involving one personally.
 * 5)  Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
 * 6)  Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
 * 7)  Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
 * 8)   a group of ferrets.
 * 9)  Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
 * 10)  The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
 * 11)  Disruptive shenanigans.
 * 12)  matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)
 * 1)  Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
 * 2)  Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
 * 3)  Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
 * 4)   a group of ferrets.
 * 5)  Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
 * 6)  The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
 * 7)  Disruptive shenanigans.
 * 8)  matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)
 * 1)  Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
 * 2)  The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
 * 3)  Disruptive shenanigans.
 * 4)  matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)
 * 1)  Disruptive shenanigans.
 * 2)  matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)
 * 1)  Disruptive shenanigans.
 * 2)  matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)
 * 1)  matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: شَرِكَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, , biznes
 * Belarusian: прадпрые́мства, бі́знэс
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: entrepreno,, negoco
 * Estonian: bisnis, firma,, ettevõte
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საწარმო,, კომპანია, ფირმა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: ἐργασία
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , ,
 * Irish: gnólacht
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: бизнес, фирма,, кәсіпорын
 * Khmer: ហាងជំនួញ, ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, , ,
 * Lao: ,
 * Latvian:, firma, , bizness, kompānija
 * Lithuanian: biznis,, , bendrovė
 * Macedonian: де́јност, бизнис
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay: perniagaan
 * Maori: pakihi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forretning
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: بنگاه تجاری, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Jeschaft
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фирма, компанија, предузеће, подузеће
 * Roman:, , preduzeće, poduzeće
 * Sherpa: ཚོང
 * Sinhalese: ව්‍යාපාර
 * Slovak: podnik,, , biznis
 * Slovene: podjetje
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: pśedawarnja
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཚོང་ལས
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, , фі́рма
 * Urdu:, ویاپار
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:, doanh thương


 * Arabic:, تِجَارَة,
 * Egyptian Arabic: شغل, بزنيس
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: branche
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: äri
 * Finnish:,  ,  ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: negozi
 * Hebrew: עסקים
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: negotios, affaires
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Latin: negōtium
 * Latvian: nodarbošanās
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Maltese: negozjant, negozjanta
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ажил хэрэг
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: biznis, obchod
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: กงกาง
 * Tibetan: ལས་ཀ, ཕྱག་ལས


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: komerco,, negoco
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * German:
 * Irish: gnó
 * Italian:
 * Khmer:
 * Latvian: bizness
 * Lithuanian: verslas
 * Malagasy: talidy,
 * Maltese: negozju
 * Manchu: ᡥᡡᡩᠠ
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: anaanish, naʼiiniʼ
 * Persian:, بیزنس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: промет
 * Slovak: obchody, zákazky, biznis
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic: رعايَة
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Malagasy: talidy


 * Finnish: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Navajo: anaanish, naʼiiniʼ
 * Slovak: podnikatelia, súkromný sektor
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: liikkeenjohto, ,
 * Slovak: manažment, podnikanie
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Burmese:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:, záležitosť


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Ottoman Turkish: امر
 * Slovak:, záležitosť


 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malagasy:
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: shuhuli
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: امر
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:, starosť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: ді́ло,


 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Polish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: affärsklass


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: business


 * Esperanto: furaro
 * Finnish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Norman:
 * Welsh:

Adjective

 * Of, to, pertaining to, or used for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
 * 1) Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
 * 2) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
 * 1) Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
 * 2) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
 * 1) Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
 * 2) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
 * 1) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
 * 1) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
 * 1) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
 * 1) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
 * 1) Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

Etymology
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Usage notes
It may be advisable to avoid using this term in writing.

Declension
This spelling does not fit nicely into Finnish declension system and is therefore seldom used, and mainly in nominative singular.

Pronunciation "bisnes":

Pronunciation "business":

Synonyms

 * See Synonyms-section under bisnes

Etymology
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Noun

 * , firm, company
 * , affairs

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  (commercial enterprise)

Etymology
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Etymology
From.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) business