different between business vs fight

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 1

From Middle English fighten, from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtan? (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *pe?- (“to comb, shear”).

Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fight, fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pect? (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek ???? (pék?, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?t, IPA^(key): /fa?t/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [f??t]
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

fight (third-person singular simple present fights, present participle fighting, simple past fought, past participle fought or (archaic) foughten)

1. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

2. (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.

3. (intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
4. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
   • 1856, Thomas Macaulay, Life of Samuel Johnson

     was left to fight his way through the world.

   • I have fought a good fight.

5. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

6. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
7. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

8. (intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fight

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: feti

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fight, feyght, fi?t, fecht, from Old English feoht, ?efeoht, from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *feht?, *gafeht? (“fight, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtan? (“to struggle with”). Cognate with Dutch gevecht, German Gefecht.

Noun

fight (countable and uncountable, plural fights)

1. An occasion of fighting.

2. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
3. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

4. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.

5. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.

6. (uncountable) The will or ability to fight.

7. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.
   • 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna

     Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fight

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: feti
  • ? Dutch: fittie
• ? Japanese: ???? (faito)

Translations