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According to WordNet, the noun "business" has 9 sense(s).

100550341 incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious".

100582388 the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business".

105833022 a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business".

108061042 a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern".

101096245 the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today".

107966927 business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree".

108401554 customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele".

101094725 the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business".

105983801 an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening".


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