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English

Etymology

From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisi?nes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy +? -ness. Doublet of busyness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?b?z.n?s/, /?b?z.n?z/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /?b?d.n?s/, /?b?d.n?z/
• Hyphenation: busi?ness

Noun

business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

1. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
2. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

3. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

4. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
5. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

6. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
7. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

8. (countable) A particular situation or activity.

9. (countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
10. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.

11. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

12. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
13. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
14. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
15. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

16. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

17. (uncountable, slang) Disruptive shenanigans.

Derived terms

Related terms

• pidgin

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

business

1. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

2. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
3. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

• business at OneLook Dictionary Search
• business in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• business in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Noun

business m

1. business

Declension

Further reading

• business in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• business in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English business.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bisnes/, [?bis?ne?s?]
• IPA^(key): /?pisnes/, [?pis?ne?s?]
• IPA^(key): /?busines?/, [?bus?ine?s??]

Noun

business

1. Alternative spelling of bisnes

Usage notes

It may be advisable to avoid using this term in writing.

Declension

This spelling does not fit nicely into Finnish declension system and is therefore seldom used, and mainly in nominative singular.

Pronunciation "bisnes":

Pronunciation "business":

Synonyms

• See Synonyms-section under bisnes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English business.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biz.n?s/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [b?z.n?s]

Noun

business m (plural business)

1. business, firm, company
2. business, affairs

Further reading

• “business” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English business.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?biz.nis/

Noun

business m (invariable)

1. business (commercial enterprise)

   Synonyms: affare, affari, impresa

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English business.

Noun

business

1. business

Declension

References

business dairäläre i?tibar?n Tatarstan belän

English

Etymology

From Middle English custume, borrowed from Anglo-Norman custume, from Old French coustume, from a Vulgar Latin *c?nsu?t?men or *cost?men, from Latin c?nsu?t?dinem, accusative singular of c?nsu?t?d? (“custom, habit”), from c?nsu?sc? (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + su?sc? (“become used or accustomed to”). First element con- derives from cum, from Old Latin com, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“with, along”). Second element su?sc? is from Proto-Indo-European *swe-d?h?-sk-, from *swé (“self”) + *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”); related to Latin suus (“one's own, his own”). Displaced native Middle English wune, wone (“custom, habit, practice”) (from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice, rite”)), Middle English side, sid (“custom”) (from Old English sidu, sido (“custom, note, manner”)), Middle English cure (“custom, choice, preference”) (from Old English cyre (“choice, choosing, free will”)). Doublet of costume and consuetude.

Adjective form circa 1830.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?m/

Noun

custom (countable and uncountable, plural customs)

1. Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.
   • Moved beyond his custom, Gama said
2. Traditional beliefs or rituals

3. (Britain) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, factory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
   • September 28, 1710, Joseph Addison, The Whig Examiner No. 3

     Let him have your custom, but not your votes.

4. (law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
5. (obsolete) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.
6. (archaic, uncountable) Toll, tax, or tribute.
   • 1769, Bible, Authorised King James Version, Oxford standard text, Romans, xiii, 7:

     Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Synonyms

Translations

Adjective

custom (not comparable)

1. Created under particular specifications, specially to fit one's needs: specialized, unique, custom-made.

   My feet are very large, so I need custom shoes.

2. Own, personal, not standard or premade.

   We can embroider a wide range of ready designs or a custom logo.

3. (archaic) Accustomed; usual.

Derived terms

• custom-made
• custom-written

Related terms

• custom made

See also

• Thesaurus:custom-made

Translations

Verb

custom (third-person singular simple present customs, present participle customing, simple past and past participle customed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make familiar; to accustom.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

2. (transitive, obsolete) To supply with customers.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the customs of.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To have a custom.

Related terms

• consuetude
• costumal
• costume
• customary
• customer
• customization
• customize

Further reading

• custom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• custom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.