Business
A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned. A business owned by multiple individuals may be referred to as a company, although that term also has a more precise meaning.
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... The Unification Church's business holdings include the UPI, The Washington Times, and the Tongil Group, one of the largest South Korean business groups or chaebol with business interests world-wide ... In the 1990s, Moon's ownership of major business enterprises, including The Washington Times, the United Press International, and Pyeonghwa Motors was noted in the media ...
... Hyundai has invested in manufacturing plants in the North America, India, Czech Republic, Pakistan, China and Turkey as well as research and development centers in Europe, Asia, North America, and the Pacific Rim ... In 2004, Hyundai Motor Company had $57.2 billion in sales in South Korea making it the country's second largest corporation, or chaebol ...
... Hill campus and incorporating the Kingston University Business School and Kingston Law School ... The Faculty of Business and Law offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as executive education in the five following groupings Law, Accounting and Finance, Informatics and Operations ... The Business School was the first in the world to receive AMBA accreditation for its MBA, DBA and Masters in Business Management ...
... Because of the nature of intellectual property, a business needs protection in every jurisdiction in which they are concerned about competitors ...
... is a British multinational branded venture capital conglomerate company founded by business tycoon Richard Branson ... Its core business areas are travel, entertainment and lifestyle and it consists of more than 400 companies worldwide. 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding company however Virgin's business and trading activities date to the 1970s ...
More definitions of "business":
- (noun): An immediate objective.
Example: "Gossip was the main business of the evening"
- (noun): A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it.
Example: "He bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"
Synonyms: concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation
- (noun): The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money.
Example: "He's not in my line of business"
Synonyms: occupation, job, line of work, line
- (noun): The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects.
Example: "Computers are now widely used in business"
Synonyms: commercial enterprise, business enterprise
- (noun): Business concerns collectively.
Example: "Government and business could not agree"
Synonyms: business sector
- (noun): The volume of business activity.
Example: "Business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
- (noun): Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect.
Example: "His business with the cane was hilarious"
Synonyms: stage business, byplay
- (noun): A rightful concern or responsibility.
Example: "It's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
Famous quotes containing the word business:
“All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n’t my business to be “seeking the spirit,” but as much its business to be seeking me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright—
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.
The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done—
“It’s very rude of him,” she said,
“To come and spoil the fun!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)