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 ... 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 ...
... 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 ... listed as 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding company however Virgin's business and trading activities date to the 1970s ...
... Because of the nature of intellectual property, a business needs protection in every jurisdiction in which they are concerned about competitors ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
More definitions of "business":
- (noun): Business concerns collectively.
Example: "Government and business could not agree"
Synonyms: business sector
- (noun): A rightful concern or responsibility.
Example: "It's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
- (noun): Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect.
Example: "His business with the cane was hilarious"
Synonyms: stage business, byplay
- (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 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): 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
Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Gratitude among friends is like credit among tradesmen: it keeps business up, and maintains commerce. And we pay not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we might the more easily find lenders on another occasion.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)