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,
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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. | | | 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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Yellow Definition–noun | 1. | a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color betw
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een green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm. | | 3. | a yellow pigment or dye. | –adjective | 7. | Often Offensive. | a. | designating or pertaining to an Oriental person or Oriental peoples. | | b. | designating or pertaining to a person of mixed racial origin, esp. of black and white heritage, whose skin is yellowish or yellowish brown. | | | 8. | having a sallow or yellowish complexion. | | 10. | (of journalism, a newspaper, etc.) | a. | sensational, esp. morbidly or offensively so: That yellow rag carried all the gory details. | | b. | dishonest in editorial comment and the presentation of news, esp. in sacrificing truth for sensationalism: Objective reporting isn't always a match for yellow journalism. | | –verb (used with object), verb (used without object) | 12. | to make or become yellow: Yellow the sheets with dye. The white stationery had yellowed with age. | |
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Page Definition–noun | 1. | one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter. | | 2. | the entire leaf of such a printed or written thing: He tore out one of the pages. | | 3. | a single sheet of paper for writing. | | 4. | a noteworthy or distinctive event or period: a reign that formed a gloomy page in English history. | | 5. | Printing. the type set and arranged for a page. | | 6. | Computers. | a. | a relatively small block of main or secondary storage, up to about 1024 words. | | b. | a block of program instructions or data stored in main or secondary storage. | | c. | (in word processing) a portion of a document. | | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to turn pages (usu. fol. by through): to page through a book looking for a specific passage. | |
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