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 |
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 |
| business suit | a suit of clothes traditionally worn by businessmen |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
| item | a whole individual unit, especially when included in a list or collection, they reduced the price on many items |
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 |
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 |
subject
content
depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
personal business
personal matters
affairs | matters of personal concern, get his affairs in order |
topic
subject issue
matter | some situation or event that is thought about, he kept drifting off the topic, he had been thinking about the subject for several years, it is a matter for the police |
detail
item
point | an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole, several of the details are similar, a point of information |
| business | a rightful concern or responsibility, it's none of your business, mind your own business |
| business | an immediate objective, gossip was the main business of the evening |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
| subject | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence, the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated |
| subject | (logic) the first term of a proposition |
nominative
nominative case
subject case | the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
assumed name fictitious name
Doing Business As
DBA | (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation |
| business card | a card on which are printed the person's name and business affiliation |
item
point | a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list, he noticed an item in the New York Times, she had several items on her shopping list, the main point on the agenda was taken up first |
| agenda item | one of the items to be considered |
| inventory item | an item listed in an inventory |
| line item | an item in an appropriation bill, Some governors can veto line items in their state budgets |
| news item | an item in a newspaper |
agenda
agendum
order of business | a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) |
message
content
subject matter
substance | what a communication that is about something is about |
subject
topic
theme | the subject matter of a conversation or discussion, he didn't want to discuss that subject, it was a very sensitive topic, his letters were always on the theme of love |
| short subject | a brief film, often shown prior to showing the feature |
| business letter | a letter dealing with business |
| business index | a statistical compilation that provides a context for economic or financial conditions, this business index is computed relative to the base year of |
| business news | news about businesses and investments |
Master in Business
Master in Business Administration
MBA | a master's degree in business |
token
item | an individual instance of a type of symbol, the word`error' contains three tokens of `r' |
discussion treatment
discourse | an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic, the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic, his treatment of the race question is badly biased |