Business vs Labour - What's the difference?
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(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
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, title= (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
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(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
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, title= (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
(countable) A particular situation or activity.
(countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
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(uncountable) Something involving one personally.
(uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
* {{quote-book, 1992, James Wallace and Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, page=154
, passage=Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,
(acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
* {{quote-book, 1983, Peter Thomson, Shakespeare's Theatre, page=155
, passage= The business with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.}}
(countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
* {{quote-book, 2004, , The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades, page=252
, passage=I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage. }}
(uncountable, slang, British) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
(slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.
* 1897 , Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) Sound Currency Committee, Sound currency , Volumes 4-5,
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, chapter=10 * 1996 , Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, American Law Reports: Annotations and Cases , Volume 35,
* 2003 , Marvin Snider, Compatibility Breeds Success: How to Manage Your Relationship with Your Business Partner ,
Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
* 1889 , The Clothier and furnisher , Volume 19,
* 1909 , La Salle Extension University, Business Administration: Business Practice ,
* 1927 , Making of America Project, (w, Harper's Magazine) , Volume 154,
* 2009 , (Frank Channing Haddock), Business Power: Supreme Business Laws and Maxims that Win Wealth ,
Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.
* 1867 , (Edmund Hodgson Yates) (editor), Amiens'', in ''Tinsley's Magazine ,
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, title= Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
(uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
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, title= (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
The act of a mother giving birth.
The time period during which a mother gives birth.
(nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
To toil, to work.
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
* Granville
* Alexander Pope
* Sir Walter Scott
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
(nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
As a noun business
is (countable) a specific commercial enterprise or establishment.As an adjective business
is of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.As a proper noun labour is
(short for) the labour party.business
English
Noun
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.}}
citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business , but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
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Derived terms
* agribusiness * big business * business as usual * business analyst * business architect * business before pleasure * business card * business class * business day * business deal * business economics * business end * business English * business ethics * business failure * business girl * business intelligence * business lunch * business model * business name * business plan * business practice * business record * business risk * business trip * business trust * business unit * business venture * businesslike * businessman * businessperson * businesswoman * business-to-business * do business * e-business * family business * funny business * get down to business * give someone the business * line of business * mean business * mind one's own business * monkey business * order of business * out of business * personal business * place of business * show business * small business * take care of business * unfinished business * we appreciate your businessAdjective
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- They are solely business' instruments. Every man's relation to them is purely a '''business''' relation. His use of them is purely a ' business use.
citation, passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
page 432,
- the fact that the injured party came to the insured premises for solely business purposes precluded any reliance on the non-business pursuits exception (§ 1 1 2[b]).
page 298,
- Both of these partnerships have to cope with these dual issues in a more complicated way than is the case in solely business partnerships.
page 38,
- He is thoroughly business , but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner.
page 77,
- and the transaction carried through in a thoroughly business manner.
page 502,
- Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughly business men and worked for profit.
page 231,
- The moral is evident: do not invest in schemes promising enormous and quick returns unless you have investigated them in a thoroughly business manner.
page 430,
- Amiens is a thoroughly business town, the business being chiefly with the flax-works.
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
See also
* *labour
English
Alternative forms
* labor (US)Noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)- Being a labour of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
- (Bartlett)
Usage notes
Like many other words ending in -our''/''-or'', this word is spelled ''labour'' in the UK and ''labor'' in the U.S.; in Canada, ''labour'' is preferred, but ''labor'' is not unknown. In Australia, where ''labour'' is the usual spelling, ''labor'' is nonetheless used in the name of the , reflecting the fact that the ''-or endings had some currency in Australia in the past. * Adjectives often used with "labour": physical, mental, technical, organised.Synonyms
*Derived terms
* (The act of a mother giving birth) labour painVerb
(en-verb) (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)- I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
- the stone that labours up the hill
- The line too labours , and the words move slow.
- to cure the disorder under which he laboured
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