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Obsolete spelling of affair [(often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.]
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An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.
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(business) An investor to a start-up, especially one who invests very early or during the company's initial forming.
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(chiefly African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of business. [(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.]
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Alternative form of big business [(sometimes capitalized) Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence.]
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(business, derogatory) The world's largest oil and gas companies (supermajors), understood as a business group having significant political, economic, or social power.
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(business, derogatory) Large, prosperous pharmaceutical firms collectively, understood as a business group having significant economic, political, or social influence.
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Obsolete form of business. [(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.]
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A company that exists solely for the purpose of merging with or acquiring another entity.
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Obsolete form of brokerage. [A business, firm, or company whose business is to act as a broker (e.g., stockbroker).]
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A business, firm, or company whose business is to act as a broker (e.g., stockbroker).
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Alternative form of buisine [(music, historical) A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.]
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(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
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The particular way in which a business ensures that it generates income, one that includes the choice of offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.
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(business) A summary of how a business owner, manager, or entrepreneur intends to organize an entrepreneurial endeavor and implement activities necessary and sufficient for the venture to succeed.
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An academic subject covering various elements of business, such as accountancy and marketing.
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A business enterprise in which the expectation of gain is accompanied by the risk of loss or failure.
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Of businesses selling to other businesses.
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How a business interacts with its employees.
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(business) Pertaining to business-to-business activities of commercial organizations serving institutions such as schools, organizations, and churches with products and/or services.
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Obsolete spelling of business [(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.]
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(rare, proscribed) Alternative spelling of business owner [One who owns a business.]
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(informal) Businesslike, or related to business.
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Obsolete form of business. [(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.]
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(business) An association of businesses to promote their interests in a community.
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(business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
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A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
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(business) A business doing business under such an alias.
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A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
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simple past tense of do business
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(marketing, business) A person who begins using a product or service at or around the time it becomes available.
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A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
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An entrepreneur; a person who undertakes an enterprise.
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The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.
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Archaic spelling of enterprise. [A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.]
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(business, informal) The situation where a company has settled into established habits and bureaucracy to the extent that fresh ideas and risk-taking are no longer possible.
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The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
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(business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.
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(business, commerce) An individual or entity directly involved in a given transaction, such as a buyer or seller.
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An operating enterprise.
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(business) A commercial organization.
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A department within a business, responsible for carrying out this process.
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(management) The personnel department of an organization, dealing with the recruitment, administration, management and training of employees; abbreviated as HR.
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Engaged in business activity
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(business) A support programme for the development of entrepreneurial companies.
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(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
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(business, management) A person employed to work independently within a company in order to introduce innovation and to revitalize and diversify its business.
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(idiomatic, politics, economics) an unspecified future budget cut, especially an imaginary cut.
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(business) A very small business with five or fewer employees, or the business sector comprising these businesses.
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(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumpreneurship [The condition of being a mumpreneur.]
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In terms of money; financially speaking.
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Alternative form of nummular [(obsolete, rare) Of or relating to coins or money.]
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(business) Describing an organization or business strategy that stresses the importance of the performance of its individual employees and of its operating policies and systems
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(uncountable) A human resources department.
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(business) All organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.
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(US) The business of providing an important commodity (such as water, electricity, or gas) or a service (such as public transportation, communications, or community health centers) to the general public, often in the form of a publicly or privately owned public utility or a publicly funded nonprofit organization (e.g. community health center, public hospital). (Fire departments, police, courts, public schools, military, e.g., are considered part of the public sector, but not usually called public services.)
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An occupation or business by which one earns one's living or makes a profit.
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(business, commerce) An individual or entity related to the first party in a business or transaction.
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(business, commerce) Of or related to the second party in a business or transaction.
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(business) An internal business organization providing support services that are shared between multiple business units or functions.
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A company that engages in no substantive business activities, but instead exists as a vehicle for legal or financial transactions, typically to shield another party from liability or other issues.
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a trade bloc with some common product-regulation policies in which most trade barriers have been removed
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A privately-owned and operated business with relatively small turnover and staff numbers, typically seen as constituting part of a specific commercial or economic sector.
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A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
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Alternative form of startupper [(neologism) An entrepreneur who is a founder/co-founder of a startup]
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(neologism) An entrepreneur who is a founder/co-founder of a startup
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(economics, Marxism) Everything to which human labor is applied.
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(idiomatic) Human capital management of the entire employee lifecycle. Companies that are engaged in talent management are strategic and deliberate in how they source, attract, select, train, develop, promote, and move employees through the organization. This term also incorporates how companies drive performance at the individual level (performance management).
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(rare) A teenage entrepreneur.
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Of or relating to tenderpreneurs.
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Alternative spelling of time-share [A property jointly owned or leased by multiple people who are allowed to use (or sublet) it only during specified periods each year.]
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That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
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An investor who invests money in an innovative enterprise for which the potential for high profit and the risk of loss are both considerable.
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