Business
(n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time |
Business
(n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. |
Business
(n.) Financial dealings |
Business
(n.) That which one has to do or should do |
Business
(n.) Affair |
Business
(n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. |
Business
(n.) Care |
Credit
(n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done |
Credit
(n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others |
Credit
(n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence |
Credit
(n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem |
Credit
(n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others |
Credit
(n.) Trust given or received |
Credit
(n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust |
Credit
(n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account |
Credit
(v. t.) To confide in the truth of |
Credit
(v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon |
Credit
(v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account |
Credit foncier
() A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities. |
Credit mobilier
() A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed. |
Insurance
(n.) The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event |
Insurance
(n.) The premium paid for insuring property or life. |
Insurance
(n.) The sum for which life or property is insured. |
Insurance
(n.) A guaranty, security, or pledge |
Method
(n.) An orderly procedure or process |
Method
(n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification |
Method
(n.) Classification |
Projected
(imp. & p. p.) of Project |
Unit
(n.) A single thing or person. |
Unit
(n.) The least whole number |
Unit
(n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. |
Unit
(n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind. |
Unit
(n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole. |
whole
unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
| credit | used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise, she already had several performances to her credit |
credit
course credit | recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed, typically measured in semester hours |
semester hour
credit hour | a unit of academic credit, one hour a week for an academic semester |
Gram's method
Gram method
Gram's procedure
Gram's stain
Gram stain | a staining technique used to classify bacteria, bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution, after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative |
method acting
method | an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed |
business stage business
byplay | incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect, his business with the cane was hilarious |
loose end
unfinished business | work that is left incomplete |
occupation
business
job
line of work
line | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money, he's not in my line of business |
business life
professional life | a career in industrial or commercial or professional activities |
| monkey business | mischievous or deceitful behavior |
coitus interruptus
withdrawal method
withdrawal pulling out
onanism | a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation |
contraception
contraceptive method | birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
rhythm method of birth control
rhythm method
rhythm
calendar method of birth control
calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
| relaxation relaxation method | a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount |
| whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
| insurance claim | demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy |
| social insurance | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people, financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue |
| national insurance | social insurance program in Britain, based on contributions from employers and employees, provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services |
| old-age insurance | insurance paid to the elderly |
| survivors insurance | insurance paid to surviving spouses |
| disability insurance | social insurance for the disabled |
commercial enterprise
business enterprise
business | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects, computers are now widely used in business |
business activity
commercial activity | activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise |
| business | the volume of commercial activity, business is good today, show me where the business was today |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
field
field of operation
line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
employee-owned enterprise
employee-owned business | a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it |
| discount business | the business of selling merchandise at a discount |
| real-estate business | the business of selling real estate |
meatpacking
meat packing
meat-packing business | wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
| deal trade business deal | a particular instance of buying or selling, it was a package deal, I had no further trade with him, he's a master of the business deal |
| going-out-of-business sale | a sale of all the tangible assets of a business that is about to close, during the Great Depression going-out-of-business sales were very common |
airline
airline business
airway | a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers |
booster booster rocket
booster unit
takeoff booster
takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
Bunker Buster
Guided Bomb Unit-
GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
| business suit | a suit of clothes traditionally worn by businessmen |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
line product line
line of products
line of merchandise
business line
line of business | a particular kind of product or merchandise, a nice line of shoes |
loudspeaker
speaker
speaker unit
loudspeaker system
speaker system | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
office
business office | place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed, he rented an office in the new building |
place of business
business establishment | an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered |
round unit of ammunition
one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
semiconductor device
semiconductor unit
semiconductor | a conductor made with semiconducting material |
visual display unit
VDU | (British) British term for video display |
| wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
| unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene |
| method | a way of doing something, especially a systematic way, implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps) |