Crossword clues for businesses
businesses
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Business \Busi"ness\ (b[i^]z"n[e^]s), n.; pl. Businesses (b[i^]z"n[e^]s*[e^]z). [From Busy.]
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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; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
--Luke ii. 49. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. ``The business of instruction.''
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Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business.
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That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference.
--Shak.What business has the tortoise among the clouds?
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Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women.
--Shak.Bestow Your needful counsel to our business.
--Shak. (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
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Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.To do one's business, to ruin one. [Colloq.]
--Wycherley.To make (a thing) one's business, to occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.]
To mean business, to be earnest. [Colloq.]
Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement; employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession; vocation; office; duty.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of business English)
Usage examples of "businesses".
He soon solved this small problem and the other minor start-up difficulties that plague many new businesses and quickly discovered exactly what his customers wanted.
New businesses called "root-beer stands" sprang up in small towns across the nation to serve frosty mugs of that new drink, often also doubling as the local purveyors of New York-style hot dogs.
Both businesses more resembled stores selling hot food than traditional restaurants serving meals.
Other businesses envied White Castle's success, and many even adopted the White Castle company name as their own, using it for various enterprises such as barber shops, taverns, beers, dairies, and even shoes.
An even greater threat to White Castle's profits was the more legitimate and profitable businesses that imitated its architecture, food, or both.
White Castle did stand out among American businesses as an unlikely success story at a time when success was rare.
White Castle and other fast-food hamburger chains were not the only businesses hit hard by wartime labor shortages.
The idea of using white paint to promote cleanliness was already a norm for the interior of lunch-counter businesses, but White Castle was the first to take "this technique a step further by proclaiming a white, sanitary atmosphere on the out side.
As I already said to you, fast, brave and asi is decided… that they taught to him to rob merchandise of the businesses and to avoid that they discovered it.
He was just as, colorful and always pretty, with his beautiful white pavilion in the center of the municipal park and its paving stone streets surrounded by businesses and houses immaculately taken care of.
The employees of all the businesses which before you entered, will verify your history, and since you warn to him the director that I am not half an hour before he leaves and he discovers it by itself, will be convinced that you are as innocent as new born.
But to answer your question, I will say to you that I came to speak of businesses, if it is that you can to do it.
Also it was to him satisfactory that the owners of the businesses smiled to him and they asked to him for its new political family.
During last the two weeks it had made two trips from businesses to California, and in the two opportunities it was discovered wishing to return to Keaton and Julie with an almost adolescent impatience.
Let me see, to protect each of my businesses against direct sorcerous attack for two months would cost .