Business vs Field - 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.
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
, 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,
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, 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 ,
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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, chapter=5, title= The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields , in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
(senseid)A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric
, volume=188, issue=22, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= An area that can be seen at a given time.
(senseid)A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
An area reserved for playing a game.
A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
(senseid)(label) A commutative ring with identity for which every non element has a multiplicative inverse.
(label) A region containing a particular mineral.
(label) The background of the shield.
(label) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
(label) The outfield.
An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
* (1800-1859)
All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
(sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
(baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
(sports) To place a team in (a game).
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 23
, author=Alasdair Lamont
, title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
To answer; to address.
To defeat.
As nouns the difference between business and field
is that business is a specific commercial enterprise or establishment while field is (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.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 verb field is
to intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.As a proper noun Field is
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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
page cclii,
- 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
* *field
English
Noun
(en noun)- fields which promise corn and wine
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Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields .”}}
Urban canopies let nature bloom, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field .}}
- this glorious and well-foughten field
- What though the field be lost?
- afforded a clear field for moral experiments
Synonyms
* (course of study or domain of knowledge) area, domain, sphere, realm * (area reserved for playing a game) course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitchHypernyms
* (algebra) Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ringHyponyms
* (algebra) ordered field, Pythagorean fieldDerived terms
* center field * fieldwork * field marshal * field theory * finite field * field seam * infield * left field * number field * outfield * play the field * quadratic field * right field * scalar field * semantic field * splitting field * vector fieldUsage notes
In the mathematical sense, some languages, such as French, use a term that literally means "body". This denotes a division ring or skew field, not necessarily commutative. If it is clear from context that the quaternions and similar division rings are irrelevant, or that all division rings being considered are finite and therefore fields, this difference is ignored.Verb
(en verb)- The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
citation, page= , passage=On balance, it was harsh on Hearts, who had given as good as they got against their more-fancied opponents, who, despite not being at full strength, fielded a multi-million pound team.}}
- The away team field ed two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- She will field questions immediately after her presentation.