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4 N‑UNCOUNT [oft on N ] Business is work or some other activity that you do as part of your job and not for pleasure. □  I'm here on business. □  You can't mix business with pleasure. □  …business trips.

5 N‑SING You can use business to refer to a particular area of work or activity in which the aim is to make a profit. □  May I ask you what business you're in? □  …the music business.

6 N‑SING You can use business to refer to something that you are doing or concerning yourself with. □  …recording Ben as he goes about his business. □ [+ of ] There was nothing left for the teams to do but get on with the business of racing.

7 N‑UNCOUNT You can use business to refer to important matters that you have to deal with. □  The most important business was left to the last. □  I've got some unfinished business to attend to.

8 N‑UNCOUNT [with poss] If you say that something is your business , you mean that it concerns you personally and that other people have no right to ask questions about it or disagree with it. □  My sex life is my business. □  If she doesn't want the police involved, that's her business. □  It's not our business.

9 N‑SING You can use business to refer in a general way to an event, situation, or activity. For example, you can say something is 'a wretched business' or you can refer to 'this assassination business'. □  We have sorted out this wretched business at last. □  This whole business is very puzzling.

10 N‑SING You can use business when describing a task that is unpleasant in some way. For example, if you say that doing something is a costly business , you mean that it costs a lot. [INFORMAL ] □  Coastal defence is a costly business. □  Parenting can be a stressful business.

11 → see also big business , show business

12 PHRASE If two people or companies do business with each other, one sells goods or services to the other. □ [+ with ] I was fascinated by the different people who did business with me.

13 PHRASE If you say that someone has no business to be in a place or to do something, you mean that they have no right to be there or to do it. □  Really I had no business to be there at all.

14 PHRASE A company that is in business is operating and trading. □  You can't stay in business without cash.

15 PHRASE If you say you are in business , you mean you have everything you need to start something immediately. [INFORMAL , SPOKEN ] □  All you need is a microphone, and you're in business.

16 PHRASE If you say that someone means business , you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing. [INFORMAL ] □  Now people are starting to realise that he means business.

17 PHRASE If you say to someone ' mind your own business ' or ' it's none of your business ', you are rudely telling them not to ask about something that does not concern them. [INFORMAL ] □  I asked Laura what was wrong and she told me to mind my own business.

18 PHRASE If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business , it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money. □  Thousands of firms could go out of business.

19 PHRASE In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual , you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do. □  The Queen was determined to show it was business as usual. USAGE business

When you use business in the sense of making, buying, and selling goods or services, don’t say ‘a business’. Don’t say, for example, ‘ We’ve got a business to do ’. Say ‘We’ve got some business to do’. □  Are you in San Francisco for business or pleasure? COLLOCATIONS business NOUN

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business+ be + adjective : booming, brisk, good; slow