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 |
House (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House (n.) Household affairs |
House (n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House (n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House (n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House (n.) A public house |
House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House (n.) An audience |
House (n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
House (n.) The grave. |
House (v. t.) To take or put into a house |
House (v. t.) To drive to a shelter. |
House (v. t.) To admit to residence |
House (v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. |
House (v. t.) To stow in a safe place |
House (v. i.) To take shelter or lodging |
House (v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |
Lombard-house (n.) Alt. of Lombar-house |
Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop. |
Lombar-house (n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged |
Mail (n.) A spot. |
Mail (n.) A small piece of money |
Mail (n.) Rent |
Mail (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor. |
Mail (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering. |
Mail (n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage. |
Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc. |
Mail (v. t.) To arm with mail. |
Mail (v. t.) To pinion. |
Mail (n.) A bag |
Mail (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another |
Mail (n.) That which comes in the mail |
Mail (n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried. |
Mail (v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail |
Mail-shell (n.) A chiton. |
Moot-house (n.) A hall for public meetings |
Order (n.) Regular arrangement |
Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library. |
Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. |
Order (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. |
Order (n.) Right arrangement |
mail-order buying catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
house | play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults, the children were playing house |
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 |
painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
monkey business | mischievous or deceitful behavior |
mail fraud | use of the mails to defraud someone |
tall order large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
order ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
mail call | a call of names of those receiving mail |
holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
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 |
telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
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 |
house arrest | confinement to your own home |
Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
animal order | the order of animals |
protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria Myxobacterales order Myxobacterales Myxobacteriales order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida order Amoebida Amoebina order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
Heterotrichales order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |