business Definition–noun | 1. | an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming. |
| 2. | the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit. |
| 3. | a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; profit-seeking enterprise or concern. |
| 4. | volume of trade; patronage: Most of the store's business comes from local families. |
| 5. | a building or site where commercial work is carried on, as a factory, store, or office; place of work: His business is on the corner of Broadway and Elm Street. |
| 6. | that with which a person is principally and seriously concerned: Words are a writer's business. |
| 7. | something with which a person is rightfully concerned: What they are doing is none of my business. |
| 8. | affair; project: We were exasperated by the whole business. |
| 9. | an assignment or task; chore: It's your business to wash the dishes now. |
| 10. | Also called piece of business, stage business. Theater. a movement or gesture, esp. a minor one, used by an actor to give expressiveness, drama, detail, etc., to a scene or to help portray a character. |
| 11. | excrement: used as a euphemism. |
–adjective | 12. | of, noting, or pertaining to business, its organization, or its procedures. |
| 13. | containing, suitable for, or welcoming business or commerce: New York is a good business town. |
—Idioms| 14. | business is business, profit has precedence over personal considerations: He is reluctant to fire his friend, but business is business. |
| 15. | do one's business, (usually of an animal or child) to defecate or urinate: housebreaking a puppy to do his business outdoors. |
| 16. | get down to business, to apply oneself to serious matters; concentrate on work: They finally got down to business and signed the contract. |
| 17. | give someone the business, Informal. | a. | to make difficulties for someone; treat harshly: Instead of a straight answer they give him the business with a needless run-around. |
| b. | to scold severely; give a tongue-lashing to: The passengers will give the bus driver the business if he keeps driving so recklessly. |
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| 18. | have no business, to have no right: You have no business coming into this house. |
| 19. | mean business, to propose to take action or be serious in intent; be in earnest: By the fire in his eye we knew that he meant business. |
| 20. | mind one's own business, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others: When he inquired about the noise coming from the neighbor's apartment, he was told to mind his own business. |
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schools Definition–noun | 1. | an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school. |
| 2. | an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. |
| 3. | a college or university. |
| 4. | a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school. |
| 5. | a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school. |
| 6. | the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school. |
| 7. | one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school. |
| 8. | a building housing a school. |
| 9. | the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium. |
| 10. | a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture. |
| 11. | a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school. |
| 12. | any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything. |
| 13. | the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy. |
| 14. | Art. | a. | a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. |
| b. | the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school. |
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| 15. | any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. |
| 16. | Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like. |
| 17. | Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking. |
| 18. | schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university. |
| 19. | Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. |
–adjective | 20. | of or connected with a school or schools. |
| 21. | Obsolete. of the schoolmen. |
–verb (used with object) | 22. | to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train. |
| 23. | Archaic. to reprimand. |
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