Business
From English 194 Wiki Site
From Princeton University's WordNet.com:
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a *small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"
- commercial enterprise: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and *industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"
- business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree"
- the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"
- a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"
- occupation: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
- an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening"
- incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious"
- clientele: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele"
Business is often described as a way of managing people in order to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular goals, usually to generate revenue.
There are three types of business, which depends on the scope:
- to refer to business in a general sense
- to refer to a specific market sector, ie. the fishing business, the record business... etc.
- to refer to a particular company or corporation
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Ashley Kaye 14:25, 2 May 2006 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Edited by Taylor Whitmer 22:47, 30 May 2006 (PDT)
