n.
1.a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
2.the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
3.business concerns collectively
4.the volume of business activity
5.a rightful concern or responsibility
6.the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
7.an immediate objective
8.incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
9.customers collectively
Idiom of the Day
lead (someone) on a merry chase
to lead someone on a chase with no purpose
The criminal led the police on a merry chase before they arrested him.