BUSINESS


Meaning of BUSINESS in English

noun

1 buying and selling of goods

ADJECTIVE

▪ big

▪ profitable

▪ private

▪ core

It's time to focus on the company's core ~.

▪ retail , wholesale

▪ online

Supermarkets are doing more online ~.

▪ competitive , tough

Retail is a tough ~.

▪ catering , computer , consulting , insurance , investment , etc.

He spent his whole life in the insurance ~.

▪ entertainment , movie ( esp. AmE ), music , newspaper

We're not trying to educate—we're in the entertainment ~.

VERB + BUSINESS

▪ carry on ( often law ), conduct , do , transact ( formal )

a company that has ceased to carry on ~

He's someone I can do ~ with (= that I find it easy to deal with) .

▪ work in

She works in the computer ~.

▪ go into , set up in

▪ go out of

The company went out of ~ during the recession.

▪ put sb/sth out of

The new regulations will put many small companies out of ~.

▪ help

He argues that tax cuts will help ~.

▪ understand

Nobody understands the music ~ better than him.

BUSINESS + NOUN

▪ deal , transaction

▪ opportunity , venture

▪ meeting

▪ lunch

▪ travel , trip

▪ person (see also businessman, businesswoman )

▪ traveller/traveler

▪ expense

Meals are considered a ~ expense.

▪ community , sector , world

▪ executive , leader , manager

a conference of women ~ leaders

▪ associate , partner

▪ contact

▪ relationship

They developed a lasting ~ relationship.

▪ affairs , interests , matters

▪ decision

It was purely a ~ decision.

▪ ethics

▪ development

▪ investment

▪ secret

to protect ~ secrets

▪ model , plan , strategy

a ~ model for using electronic commerce

▪ practice

It's good ~ practice to listen to your customers.

▪ acumen

▪ card

▪ attire ( esp. AmE ), suit

He wore a ~ suit.

▪ hours

You can call the helpline during normal ~ hours.

▪ school

▪ studies

▪ major ( AmE )

▪ park

The company's offices are located in the new ~ park out of town.

▪ district

the city's main ~ district

PREPOSITION

▪ in ~

He's in ~.

What ~ are you in?

All we need is a car and we'll be in ~ (= we'll have everything we need to start what we want to do) .

▪ on ~

I'm going to Paris on ~.

PHRASES

▪ ~ as usual (= things will continue as normal in spite of a difficult situation)

It's ~ as usual at the factory.

▪ ~ or pleasure

Is the trip to Rome ~ or pleasure?

▪ mix ~ with pleasure

When I travel overseas I like to mix ~ with pleasure.

▪ my, his, her etc. own ~

He left the department to start his own ~.

▪ a place of ~

2 amount of trade done

ADJECTIVE

▪ brisk , good

Business was brisk and they had sold out by midday.

▪ bad , slack ( esp. BrE ), slow

▪ new

They've cut their rates to attract new ~.

▪ repeat

Our repeat ~ is 50% or higher.

VERB + BUSINESS

▪ do

They're doing good ~ in Asia.

▪ attract , drum up , generate

She's in Europe drumming up ~ for her new company.

▪ tout for ( BrE )

insurance salesmen touting for ~

▪ affect , hurt

Cheap imports are hurting ~ for domestic producers.

▪ lose

We're losing ~ to our main rivals.

▪ handle

We took on temporary staff to handle the extra ~.

BUSINESS + VERB

▪ boom , grow

Business is booming for the big pharmaceutical companies.

▪ pick up

After a slack period, ~ is now picking up.

▪ slow , slow down

Business has slowed considerably in recent months.

3 commercial organization

ADJECTIVE

▪ large , medium-sized , small

▪ new

loans for people to start new ~es

▪ family , family-owned

▪ global , international , local

▪ private

▪ state-owned

▪ booming , lucrative , profitable , successful , thriving , viable

The family owns a booming construction ~.

▪ Internet , online , Web

She runs a successful online ~.

▪ traditional

Traditional ~es are having to compete with the Internet.

▪ mail-order , retail , wholesale

▪ catering , grocery ( esp. AmE ), hairdressing , restaurant , etc.

She had her own hairdressing ~.

▪ legitimate

These laws make life more difficult for legitimate ~es.

VERB + BUSINESS

▪ have , own

▪ manage , operate , run

It was always my dream to run my own ~.

▪ establish , launch , set up , start

They decided to start their own ~.

▪ build , build up

We built up the ~ from nothing.

▪ expand , grow

We are looking to grow the ~ over the next couple of years.

▪ work in

He works in the family ~.

▪ enter , join

After leaving school she entered the family ~.

▪ leave

▪ buy , take over

▪ sell

BUSINESS + VERB

▪ do well , flourish , succeed , take off , thrive

After six months the ~ really took off.

▪ expand , grow

The ~ is expanding fast.

▪ collapse , fail

▪ be based in

He owns a management consulting ~ based in Santa Barbara.

BUSINESS + NOUN

▪ assets , premises

▪ failure

▪ owner

4 work/responsibility

ADJECTIVE

▪ daily

▪ real

He needs time and space to get on with the real ~ of writing.

VERB + BUSINESS

▪ get on with , go about

market traders going about their daily ~

▪ make sth

I shall make it my ~ to find out who is responsible.

PHRASES

▪ have no ~ doing sth , have no ~ to do sth ( esp. BrE )

You have no ~ (= no right) being here.

▪ keep your nose out of sb's ~ , mind your own ~

Keep your nose out of my ~!

‘What are you reading?’ ‘Mind your own ~!’

I was just sitting there, minding my own ~, when a man started shouting at me.

▪ no ~ of yours , none of your ~

My private life is none of your ~ (= does not concern you) .

5 important matters

ADJECTIVE

▪ private

▪ important , pressing , urgent

▪ official

This isn't a social call—I've come on official ~.

▪ unfinished

We have some unfinished ~ to discuss.

VERB + BUSINESS

▪ get down to

OK, let's get down to ~.

▪ deal with , discuss , talk

I'm not going to talk ~ tonight.

▪ finish

Jack and I finished our ~ early, so we went to lunch.

PHRASES

▪ any other ~ (= items discussed at the end of a meeting)

I think we've finished item four. Now, is there any other ~?

▪ mean ~ (= be serious about doing something)

He says he's going to make changes, and I think he means ~.

6 situation/event

ADJECTIVE

▪ whole

I'll be glad when the whole ~ is over and done with.

▪ dirty , messy

I'm just glad to be out of the whole dirty ~.

▪ bad , sorry , terrible (all esp. BrE )

It was a bad business—he couldn't work for months.

▪ funny , strange ( esp. BrE )

▪ dangerous , risky , tricky

Changing your life can be a risky ~.

▪ serious

Having fun is a serious ~.

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