Business

Input interpretation:
Business (English word)

Definitions:
Noun:
Activity | the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
Commerce | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
Commercial activity | the volume of commercial activity
Enterprise | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
Object | an immediate objective
People | customers collectively
Playacting | incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
Sector | business concerns collectively
Vexation | a rightful concern or responsibility

Word origins:
Old English (first recorded use: 1387 (622 years ago))

Typical word frequency:
Written | 1/2700 (rank: 209th) 100% noun
Spoken | 1/4400 (rank: 354th) 100% noun
(Based on the 100-million-word British National Corpus)

Synonyms:
Playacting | byplay | stage business
Activity | job | line | line of work | occupation
Commerce | business enterprise | commercial enterprise
Sector | business sector
Enterprise | business concern | business organization | business organization | concern
People | clientele | patronage

Narrower terms:
Accountancy  |  accounting  |  advertising  |  agency  |  agribusiness  |  agriculture  |  appointment  |  berth  |  big business  |  billet  |  biz  |  brokerage  |  building  |  business firm  |  butchering  |  butchery  |  calling  |  career  |  carrier  |  catering  |  chain  |  common carrier  |  confectionery  |  construction  |  craft  |  dealership  |  discount business  |  employee-owned business  |  employee-owned enterprise  |  employment  |  factory farm  |  farming  |  field  |  field of operation  |  finance  |  firm  |  fishing  |  franchise  |  game  |  house  |  industry  |  land  |  land-office business  |  line of business  |  maker  |  manufacture  |  manufacturer  |  manufacturing business  |  medium  |  metier  |  occasions  |  office  |  packaging  |  partnership  |  patronage  |  photography  |  place  |  position  |  post  |  printing  |  processor  |  profession  |  publication  |  publicizing  |  publishing  |  real-estate business  |  salt mine  |  schtick   |  shipbuilder  |  shipping  |  shtik  |  situation  |  sport  |  spot  |  storage  |  tourism  |  touristry  |  trade  |  transport  |  transportation  |  treadmill  |  underperformer  |  venture  |  vocation  |  work

Broader terms:
Acting  |  activity  |  aim  |  business activity  |  commerce  |  commercial activity  |  commercialism  |  concern  |  enterprise  |  headache  |  mercantilism  |  object  |  objective  |  people  |  performing  |  playacting  |  playing  |  sector  |  target  |  vexation  |  worry

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