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biz (clipping)
bisoness, businesse, busynesse (obsolete)
bizness (pronunciation spelling, AAVE)
bidness (Southern pronunciation spelling, AAVE)

From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy +‎ -ness. Doublet of busyness.

IPA^(key): /ˈbɪz.nɪs/, /ˈbɪz.nɪz/^[1]
(weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪz.nəs/, /ˈbɪz.nəz/
(Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪz.nɪs/, /ˈbɪd.nɪs/
Hyphenation: busi‧ness
Rhymes: -ɪznɪs, -ɪznɪz, -ɪznəs, -ɪznəz, -ɪdnəs, -ɪdnəz
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (particularly: final /z/)

business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:enterprise

I left my father's business.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
  
  The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

He is in the motor and insurance businesses.

I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!

We do business all over the world.
(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

Business has been slow lately.

They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
  
  In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

I shall take my business elsewhere.
(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
- 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  
  Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

I studied business at Harvard.
(countable) A particular situation or activity.

This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
- [1545?], John Heywood, The Playe Called The Foure PP […], London: […] Wyllyam Myddylton, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, The Play Called The Four PP […] (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), London; Edinburgh: […] T. C. & E. C. Jack, […], 1908, →OCLC, signature [E.ii.], verso:
  
  The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.
(countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.

Our principal business here is to get drunk.

Let's get down to business.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Chapter I: Of Sense”, in Leviathan‎^Wikisource:
  
  To know the naturall cause of Sense, is not very necessary to the business now in hand; and I have els-where written of the same at large.
(uncountable) Something involving one personally.

That's none of your business.

My work is no business of yours.
(uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- 1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire‎^[3], page 154:
  
  Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft, […]
(acting, theater) Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”).
- 1983, Peter Thomson, Shakespeare's Theatre‎^[4], →ISBN, page 155:
  
  The business with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.
(countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

Synonym: fesnyng
- 2004, Dave Duncan, The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades‎^[5], →ISBN, page 252:
  
  I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage.
(slang, British) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

These new phones are the business!
(slang, uncountable) The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.

Your ferret left his business all over the floor.

As the cart went by, its horse lifted its tail and did its business.
(slang) Disruptive shenanigans.

I haven't seen cartoons giving someone the business since the 1990s.
(Australian Aboriginal) Matters.

sorry business ― a funeral

pidgin

commercial enterprise or establishment

Albanian: biznes (sq) m, kompani (sq) f
Arabic: شَرِكَة f (šarika)
Armenian: բիզնես (hy) (biznes), ձեռնարկություն (hy) (jeṙnarkutʻyun)
Azerbaijani: şirkət (az), firma (az), biznes
Belarusian: прадпрые́мства n (pradpryjémstva), бі́знэс m (bíznes)
Bengali: ব্যবসা (bn) (bêbśa), কারবার (bn) (karbar)
Bulgarian: предприя́тие (bg) n (predprijátie), би́знес (bg) m (bíznes)
Burmese: ကုမ္ပဏီ (my) (kumpa.ni)
Catalan: empresa (ca) f, companyia (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 事業 / 事业 (zh) (shìyè), 企業 / 企业 (zh) (qǐyè)
Czech: podnik (cs) m, byznys (cs) m
Danish: forretning (da) c
Dutch: bedrijf (nl) n, zaak (nl) f, onderneming (nl) f
Esperanto: entrepreno, establo (eo), negoco, firmao
Estonian: bisnis, firma, kompanii (et), ettevõte
Finnish: liike (fi), yritys (fi), liiketoiminta (fi), myymälä (fi), kauppa (fi)
French: entreprise (fr) f, firme (fr) f, compagnie (fr) f
Galician: negocio (gl) m
Georgian: საწარმო (sac̣armo), ბიზნესი (ka) (biznesi), კომპანია (ḳomṗania), ფირმა (pirma)
German: Geschäft (de) n, Unternehmen (de) n, Firma (de) f
Greek: επιχείρηση (el) f (epicheírisi), εταιρεία (el) f (etaireía), εταιρία (el) f (etairía)

Ancient: ἐργασία f (ergasía)
Hebrew: עֵסֶק (he) m ('ések)
Hindi: व्यापार (hi) m (vyāpār), व्यवसाय (hi) m (vyavasāy), वाणिज्य (hi) m (vāṇijya)
Irish: gnólacht m, gnó m
Italian: azienda (it) f, compagnia (it) f
Japanese: 事業 (ja) (じぎょう, jigyō), 企業 (ja) (きぎょう, kigyō)
Kazakh: бизнес (biznes), фирма (firma), компания (kk) (kompaniä), кәсіпорын (käsıporyn)
Khmer: ហាងជំនួញ (haang cumnuəñ), សហគ្រាស (km) (saʼhaʼkriəh), បរិស័ទ (km) (bɑɑresat)
Korean: 사업(事業) (ko) (sa'eop), 기업(企業) (ko) (gieop), 업무(業務) (ko) (eommu)
Kyrgyz: бизнес (ky) (biznes), фирма (ky) (firma), компания (ky) (kompaniya), ишкана (ky) (işkana)
Lao: ທຸລະກິດ (lo) (thu la kit), ບໍລິສັດ (lo) (bǭ li sat)
Latvian: uzņēmums (lv) m, firma f, sabiedrība (lv) f, bizness m, kompānija f
Lithuanian: biznis m, firma (lt) f, kompanija (lt) f, bendrovė f
Macedonian: де́јност f (déjnost), бизнис m (biznis)
Malagasy: kanonkanona (mg), raharaha (mg)
Malay: perniagaan
Maori: pakihi
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: үйлдвэр (mn) (üjldver), компани (mn) (kompani), фирм (mn) (firm)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: forretning m
Occitan: entrepresa (oc) f
Persian: بنگاه تجاری (bongâh-e tejâri), تجارتخانه (fa) (tejâratxâne), شرکت (fa) (šerkat)
Plautdietsch: Jeschaft n
Polish: interes (pl), firma (pl), biznes (pl), przedsiębiorstwo (pl) n
Portuguese: negócio (pt) m, empresa (pt) f
Romanian: întreprindere (ro) f, firmă (ro) f, companie (ro) f
Russian: предприя́тие (ru) n (predprijátije), би́знес (ru) m (bíznɛs), компа́ния (ru) f (kompánija), фи́рма (ru) f (fírma)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: фирма f, компанија f, предузеће n, подузеће n

Roman: firma (sh), kompanija (sh), preduzeće n, poduzeće n
Sherpa: ཚོང (tshong)
Sinhalese: ව්‍යාපාර (wyāpāra)
Slovak: podnik n, firma (sk) f, spoločnosť (sk) f, biznis m
Slovene: podjetje n
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: pśedawarnja f
Spanish: empresa (es) f, negocio (es) m, negociado (es) m
Swahili: biashara (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: affärer (sv) c pl
Tagalog: (literally) negosyo (tl)
Tajik: ширкат (tg) (širkat)
Thai: ธุรกิจ (th) (tú-rá-gìt), บริษัท (th) (bɔɔ-rí-sàt)
Tibetan: ཚོང་ལས (tshong las)
Turkish: şirket (tr), işletme (tr)
Ukrainian: підприє́мство (uk) n (pidpryjémstvo), бі́знес (uk) m (bíznes), фі́рма f (fírma)
Urdu: کاروبار (ur) m (kārobār), ویاپار m (vyāpār)
Uzbek: biznes (uz), firma (uz), kompaniya (uz), shirkat (uz)
Vietnamese: doanh nghiệp (vi), doanh thương

occupation, work or trade of a person

Arabic: عَمَل (ar) m (ʕamal), تِجَارَة f (tijāra), مَشْرُوع (ar) m (mašrūʕ)

Egyptian Arabic: شغل m (šuḡl), بزنيس m (beznes)
Burmese: အလုပ် (my) (a.lup), လုပ်ငန်း (my) (lupngan:)
Catalan: negoci (ca) m
Chinese:

Mandarin: 商業 / 商业 (zh) (shāngyè)
Czech: obchod (cs)
Danish: branche c
Dutch: zaken (nl) f pl, zakenleven (nl) n
Estonian: äri
Finnish: ammatti (fi) (occupation), työ (fi) (work), ala (fi) (trade), elinkeino (fi)
French: affaire (fr)
Friulian: negozi m
Hebrew: עסקים m pl ('asaqym)
Hindi: व्यापार (hi) m (vyāpār), व्यवसाय (hi) m (vyavsāy), वाणिज्य (hi) m (vāṇijya)
Hungarian: üzlet (hu)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bisnis (id), ^{(please verify)} urusan (id)
Interlingua: negotios pl, affaires pl
Japanese: 商売 (ja) (しょうばい, shōbai), 取引 (ja) (とりひき, torihiki), 商い (ja) (あきない, akinai), 業務 (ja) (ぎょうむ, gyōmu)
Latin: negōtium n
Latvian: nodarbošanās f pl
Macedonian: занимање (mk) n (zanimanje), работа (mk) f (rabota)
Maltese: negozjant m, negozjanta f
Mongolian:

Cyrillic: ажил хэрэг (ažil xereg)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: virksomhet (no) m
Occitan: negòci (oc) m
Persian: پیشه (fa) (piša), کار (fa) (kâr), بیاوار (fa) (biyâvâr)
Polish: zajęcie (pl) n, zawód (pl) m
Portuguese: ramo (pt), trabalho (pt) m, negócio (pt) m
Romanian: afacere (ro) f
Russian: заня́тие (ru) n (zanjátije), рабо́та (ru) f (rabóta)
Slovak: biznis m, obchod m
Spanish: negocio (es) m
Swahili: biashara (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: bransch (sv) c
Telugu: వ్యాపారము (te) (vyāpāramu)
Thai: กงกาง (gong-gaang)
Tibetan: ལས་ཀ (las ka), ཕྱག་ལས (phyag las) (honorific)

commercial, industrial or professional activity

Chinese:

Mandarin: 買賣 / 买卖 (zh) (mǎimài)
Danish: forretning (da) c
Dutch: vak (nl) n
Esperanto: komerco, afero (eo), negoco
Finnish: liiketoiminta (fi), yritystoiminta (fi), ala (fi), kauppa (fi)
German: Geschäft (de) n
Hindi: वाणिज्यिक (vāṇijyik)
Irish: gnó m
Italian: affari (it) m pl
Khmer: ជំនួញ (km) (cumnuəɲ)
Latvian: bizness m
Lithuanian: verslas m
Malagasy: talidy, kanonkanona (mg)
Maltese: negozju
Manchu: ᡥᡡᡩ᠋ᠠ (hūda)
Mongolian: бизнес (mn) (biznes)
Navajo: anaanish, naʼiiniʼ
Persian: کار (fa) (kâr), بیزنس (biznes)
Polish: biznes (pl) m
Portuguese: negócio (pt) m
Romanian: afacere (ro)
Russian: би́знес (ru) m (bíznɛs), де́ло (ru) n (délo)
Spanish: negocio (es) m
Swahili: biashara (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: företag (sv) n, affär (sv) c, verksamhet (sv) c
Ukrainian: бізнес (uk) m (biznes)

volume or amount of commercial trade

private commercial interests taken collectively

management of commercial enterprises

particular situation or activity

objective or a matter needing to be dealt with

something involving one personally

Czech: záležitost (cs) f, věc (cs) f
Dutch: zaken (nl) f pl
Finnish: asia (fi)
German: Angelegenheit (de) f
Hebrew: עִנְיָן (he) m ('inyán)
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: работа (mk) f (rabota)
Malagasy: tadidy (mg)
Mongolian: хэрэг (mn) (xereg)
Ngazidja Comorian: shuhuli
Norwegian:

Bokmål: sak (no) n, anliggende (no) n
Ottoman Turkish: امر (emr, emir)
Polish: sprawa (pl) f, interes (pl) m
Russian: де́ло (ru) n (délo)
Sicilian: chi fari m
Slovak: vec (sk), starosť
Spanish: asunto (es) m, incumbencia (es) f, disused: afer (es) m / aferes (es) m pl
Swedish: angelägenhet (sv) c, affär (sv) c, sak (sv) c
Ukrainian: ді́ло n (dílo), спра́ва (uk) f (správa)

matters that come before a body for deliberation or action

action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing

collective noun for a group of ferrets

slang: something very good

Translations to be checked

business

Of, to, pertaining to, or used for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

Please do not use this phone for personal calls; it is a business phone.
- 1897, Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee, Sound Currency‎^[6], volumes 4-5, page cclii:
  
  They are solely business instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely a business relation. His use of them is purely a business use.
- 1996, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, American Law Reports: Annotations and Cases‎^[7], volume 35, page 432:
  
  […] the fact that the injured party came to the insured premises for solely business purposes precluded any reliance on the non-business pursuits exception (§ 1 1 2[b]).
- 2003, Marvin Snider, Compatibility Breeds Success: How to Manage Your Relationship with Your Business Partner‎^[8], page 298:
  
  Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solely business partnerships.
Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
- 1889, The Clothier and furnisher‎^[9], volume 19, page 38:
  
  He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
- 1909, Business Administration: Business Practice‎^[10], La Salle Extension University, page 77:
  
  […] and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.
- 1927, “Making of America Project”, in Harper's Magazine‎^[11], volume 154, page 502:
  
  Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughly business men and worked for profit.
- 2009, Frank Channing Haddock, Business Power: Supreme Business Laws and Maxims that Win Wealth‎^[12], page 231:
  
  The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughly business manner.
Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
- 1867, “Amiens”, in Edmund Hodgson Yates, editor, Tinsley's Magazine‎^[13], page 430:
  
  Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
  
  According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

“business”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
business in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “business”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

busseins, buisness

IPA^(key): [ˈbɪznɪs]

business m inan

business

Declension of business (hard masculine inanimate)

“business”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
“business”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English business.

IPA^(key): /ˈbɪsnɪs/
Hyphenation: busi‧ness

business m (uncountable)

business (commercial activity or specific commercial enterprise)

Onder de bezielende leiding van Pierre Vinken is de wetenschappelijke tak uitgegroeid tot de core business van RELX.

Under the inspiring leadership of Pierre Vinken, the scientific branch has grown into the core business of RELX.

Unadapted borrowing from English business.

IPA^(key): /ˈbisnes/, [ˈbis̠ne̞s̠]
IPA^(key): /ˈpisnes/, [ˈpis̠ne̞s̠]
IPA^(key): /ˈbusinesː/, [ˈbus̠ine̞s̠ː]
Rhymes: -isnes
Syllabification^(key): busi‧ness
Hyphenation^(key): busi‧ness

business

alternative spelling of bisnes

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

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

Pronunciation "bisnes":

Pronunciation "business":

See Synonyms-section under bisnes

“business”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[14] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English business.