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Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products. It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit."

Related Definition

  1. firm:

    n (UK, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.

    n (business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.

    n (slang) A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.

    adj Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)

    adj Fixed (in opinion).

    adj Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.

    adj Durable, rigid (material state)

    v (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.

    v (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.

    v (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.

    v (intransitive) To improve after decline.

    v (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).

    v (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.

    adv (now rare) firmly, steadily