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an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
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the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit.
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a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; profit-seeking enterprise or concern.
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volume of trade; patronage: Most of the store's business comes from local families.
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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.
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that with which a person is principally and seriously concerned: Words are a writer's business.
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something with which a person is rightfully concerned: What they are doing is none of my business.
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affair; project: We were exasperated by the whole business.
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an assignment or task; chore: It's your business to wash the dishes now.
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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.
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excrement: used as a euphemism.
–adjective
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of, noting, or pertaining to business, its organization, or its procedures.
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containing, suitable for, or welcoming business or commerce: New York is a good business town.
—Idioms
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business is business, profit has precedence over personal considerations: He is reluctant to fire his friend, but business is business.
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do one's business, (usually of an animal or child) to defecate or urinate: housebreaking a puppy to do his business outdoors.
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get down to business, to apply oneself to serious matters; concentrate on work: They finally got down to business and signed the contract.
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give someone the business, Informal.
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to make difficulties for someone; treat harshly: Instead of a straight answer they give him the business with a needless run-around.
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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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have no business, to have no right: You have no business coming into this house.
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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.
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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.
something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
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a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb.
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Textiles.
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a woven fabric, esp. a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom.
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the flat woven st
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rip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.
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something resembling woven material, esp. something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance: He looked up at the web of branches of the old tree.
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an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.: The thief was convicted by a web of evidence. Who can understand the web of life?
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something that snares or entangles; a trap: innocent travelers caught in the web of international terrorism.
Zoology.
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a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
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Ornithology.
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the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather.
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the series on both sides, collectively.
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an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.
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Machinery. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end.
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Architecture. (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing.
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a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press.
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a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.
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Informal. a network of radio or television broadcasting stations.
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