Word Type
business is a noun:
- A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
"I was left my father's business." - A person's occupation, work, or trade.
"He is in the motor business." - Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
"He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!" - The volume or amount of commercial trade.
"Business has been slow lately." - One's dealings; patronage.
"I shall take my business elsewhere." - Private commercial interests taken collectively.
"This proposal will satisfy both business and labor." - The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
"I studied business at Harvard." - A particular situation or activity.
"This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business." - An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
"Our principal business here is to get drunk." - Something involving one personally.
"That's none of your business." - Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
"If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business." - Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
- The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
"These new phones are the business!" - Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
"Your ferret left his business all over the floor."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is business?
- Noun usage: I was left my father's business.
- Noun usage: He is in the motor business.
- Noun usage: I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
- Noun usage: He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
- Noun usage: We do business all over the world.
- Noun usage: Business has been slow lately.
- Noun usage: They did nearly a million dollars of business over the long weekend.
- Noun usage: I shall take my business elsewhere.
- Noun usage: This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.
- Noun usage: I studied business at Harvard.
- Noun usage: This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.
- Noun usage: Our principal business here is to get drunk.
- Noun usage: Let's get down to business.
- Noun usage: That's none of your business.
- Noun usage: If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
- Noun usage: These new phones are the business!
- Noun usage: Your ferret left his business all over the floor.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of business are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of business, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
