noun
1. an enterprise connected with commerce (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms: ↑enterprise
• Hyponyms: ↑cooperative, ↑co-op, ↑industry
2. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
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• Syn: ↑business enterprise, ↑business
• Members of this Topic:
↑dull, ↑slow, ↑sluggish, ↑hostile, ↑tangible, ↑intangible, ↑overcapitalization, ↑overcapitalisation, ↑operation, ↑business, ↑administration, ↑disposal, ↑establishment, ↑gambling house, ↑gambling den, ↑gambling hell, ↑gaming house, ↑shrewdness, ↑astuteness, ↑perspicacity, ↑perspicaciousness, ↑film, ↑cinema, ↑celluloid, ↑business people, ↑businesspeople, ↑business sector, ↑chain, ↑concern, ↑business concern, ↑business organization, ↑business organisation, ↑capitalist, ↑copartner, ↑player, ↑bankroll, ↑roll, ↑stagnation, ↑stagnancy, ↑doldrums, ↑privatize, ↑privatise
• Hypernyms: ↑commerce, ↑commercialism, ↑mercantilism
• Hyponyms:
↑tourism, ↑touristry, ↑fishing, ↑butchery, ↑butchering, ↑storage, ↑industry, ↑manufacture, ↑field, ↑field of operation, ↑line of business, ↑employee-owned enterprise, ↑employee-owned business, ↑finance, ↑discount business, ↑real-estate business, ↑advertising, ↑publicizing, ↑publication, ↑publishing, ↑printing, ↑packaging, ↑agribusiness, ↑agriculture, ↑factory farm, ↑construction, ↑building, ↑transportation, ↑shipping, ↑transport, ↑venture
• Part Holonyms: ↑market, ↑marketplace, ↑market place
• Part Meronyms: ↑business activity, ↑commercial activity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.