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1. 商业；买卖；交易；生意
Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.

2. 业务量；营业额
Business is used when talking about how many products or services a company is able to sell. If business is good, a lot of products or services are being sold and if business is bad, few of them are being sold.

3. 工商企业；公司；商店；商铺
A business is an organization which produces and sells goods or which provides a service.

4. 任务；职责；工作
Business is work or some other activity that you do as part of your job and not for pleasure.

5. 行业；（某一领域的）工作
You can use business to refer to a particular area of work or activity in which the aim is to make a profit.

6. 眼前所做之事；手头的事
You can use business to refer to something that you are doing or concerning yourself with.

7. （需要处理的）重要事情，要点
You can use business to refer to important matters that you have to deal with.

8. 个人的事；私事
If you say that something is your business, you mean that it concerns you personally and that other people have no right to ask questions about it or disagree with it.

9. 事件；情况；活动
You can use business to refer in a general way to an event, situation, or activity. For example, you can say something is 'a wretched business' or you can refer to 'this assassination business'.

10. （令人不快或耗费钱财的）活儿，事情
You can use business when describing a task that is unpleasant in some way. For example, if you say that doing something is a costly business, you mean that it costs a lot.

11. see also: big business;show business

12. 做买卖；做生意
If two people or companies do business with each other, one sells goods or services to the other.

13. 无权；没有理由
If you say that someone has no business to be in a place or to do something, you mean that they have no right to be there or to do it.

14. 在经营中
A company that is in business is operating and trading.

15. 万事俱备
If you say you are in business, you mean you have everything you need to start something immediately.

16. 当真的；严肃的
If you say that someone means business, you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing.

17. 没你的事；少管闲事
If you say to someone 'mind your own business' or 'it's none of your business', you are rudely telling them not to ask about something that does not concern them.

18. 决定做
If you make it your business to do something, you decide to do it, because you are interested in it or because you want to find out something.

19. 是不会（做）…的；才不会（做）
If you say that you are not in the business of doing something, you are emphasizing that you do not do it, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that someone thinks you do.

20. 停业；破产
If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.

21. 同类中最好的
If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.

22. 一切如常；处之泰然
In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual, you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do.

1. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

e.g. his business with the cane was hilarious

Synonym: stage businessbyplay

2. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

e.g. he's not in my line of business

Synonym: occupationjobline of workline

3. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

e.g. computers are now widely used in business

Synonym: commercial enterprisebusiness enterprise

4. the volume of commercial activity

e.g. business is good today
show me where the business was today

5. a rightful concern or responsibility

e.g. it's none of your business
mind your own business

6. an immediate objective

e.g. gossip was the main business of the evening

7. business concerns collectively

e.g. Government and business could not agree

Synonym: business sector

8. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

e.g. he bought his brother's business
a small mom-and-pop business
a racially integrated business concern

Synonym: concernbusiness concernbusiness organizationbusiness organisation

9. customers collectively

e.g. they have an upper class clientele

Synonym: clientelepatronage