Business
- Carriage and Insurance Paid to, an Incoterm
- Construction in Progress, in accountancy, a balance sheet assets item used for assets being constructed, e.g. buildings.
- Continuation-in-part, in United States patent law; see continuing patent application
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Crippled Intellect Publications, a record label for experimental music.
- Critical infrastructure protection, in preparedness and response to incidents that involve critical infrastructure
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we’ll all be plucking chickens for a living.”
—H. Ross Perot (b. 1930)
“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)