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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Degree Definition–noun | 1. | any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale. |
| 2. | a stage or point in or as if in progression or retrogression: We followed the degrees of her recovery with joy. |
| 3. | a stage in a scale of intensity or amount: a high degree of mastery. |
| 4. | extent, measure, scope, or the like: To what degree will he cooperate? |
| 5. | a stage in a scale of rank or station; relative standing in society, business, etc.: His uncouth behavior showed him to be a man of low degree. |
| 6. | Education. an academic title conferred by universities and colleges as an indication of the completion of a course of study, or as an honorary recognition of achievement. |
| 7. | a unit of measure, as of temperature or pressure, marked off on the scale of a measuring instrument: This thermometer shows a scale of degrees between only 20° and 40° C. |
| 8. | Geometry. the 360th part of a complete angle or turn, often represented by the sign°, as in 45°, which is read as 45 degrees. Compare angle1 (def. 1c). |
| 9. | the distinctive classification of a crime according to its gravity: murder in the first degree. |
| 10. | Grammar. one of the parallel formations of adjectives and adverbs used to express differences in quality, quantity, or intensity. In English, low and careful are the positive degree, lower and more careful are the comparative degree, lo
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| 11. | Mathematics. | a. | the sum of the exponents of the variables in an algebraic term: x3 and 2x2y are terms of degree three. |
| b. | the term of highest degree of a given equation or polynomial: The expression 3x2y + y2 + 1 is of degree three. |
| c. | the exponent of the derivative of highest order appearing in a given differential equation. |
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| 12. | Music. a tone or step of the scale. |
| 13. | Astrology. any of the 360 equal divisions of the ecliptic measured counterclockwise from the vernal equinox. Each of the 12 signs of the zodiac contains 30 degrees. |
| 14. | a certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of relationship: a cousin of the second degree. |
| 15. | Archaic. a line or point on the earth or the celestial sphere, as defined by degrees of latitude. |
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—Idioms| 17. | by degrees, by easy stages; gradually: She grew angrier by degrees. |
| 18. | to a degree, | a. | to a considerable extent; exceedingly. |
| b. | to a small extent; somewhat: He is to a degree difficult to get along with. |
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