different between business vs toil

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

Alternative forms

• toyle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *til?n? (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).

An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??l/, /?t???l/
• Rhymes: -??l, -???l

Noun

toil (countable and uncountable, plural toils)

1. Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

   Synonyms: derve, drudgery, swink; see also Thesaurus:drudgery
2. Trouble, strife.
3. (usually in the plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.

Derived terms

• toiler
• toilsome

Translations

Verb

toil (third-person singular simple present toils, present participle toiling, simple past and past participle toiled)

1. (intransitive) To labour; work.
2. (intransitive) To struggle.
3. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.

   • places well toiled and husbanded
4. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

Derived terms

• toil and moil

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “toil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• -itol, loti

Basque

Noun

toil

1. conger eel

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t???l?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t???l?/

Noun

toil f (genitive singular tola)

1. will

Declension

Derived terms

• le do thoil
• más é do thoil é

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “toil” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "toil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

References

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tol?/

Noun

toil

1. inflection of tol:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???l/

Noun

toil f (genitive singular toile, plural toilean)

1. will, desire, volition, inclination
2. delight, pleasure

Derived terms

• is toil leam (“I like”)
• mas e do thoil e (“please”)

Derived terms

• mì-thoil (“reluctance”)
• saor-thoil (“free will”)
• toileach (“willing”)

References

• “toil” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language