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.
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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
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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.
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.
a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
2.
a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.
3.
a cylindrical or tapering graduated container, used for measuring.
–adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student.
5.
having an academic degree or diploma: a graduate engineer.
–verb (used without object)
6.
to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often fol. by from): She graduated from college in 1985.
7.
to pass by degrees; change gradually.
–verb (used with object)
8.
to confer a degree upon, or to grant a diploma to, at the close of a course of study, as in a university, college, or school: Cornell graduated eighty students with honors.
9.
Informal. to receive a degree or diploma from: She graduated college in 1950.
10.
to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.
11.
to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.
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
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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.
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.
Australianand New ZealandInformal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking.
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