English Dictionary

business

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɪz.nɪs/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 稀用 イギリス英語 俗語

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment. / (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade. / (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

日本語の意味

事業、企業（特定の商業施設または企業体） / 職業、仕事、商売（個人の職務または取引） / 商業活動、産業活動、専門職活動

Her family opened a small business selling handmade soap on the corner of the market.

彼女の家族は市場の角に手作り石鹸を売る小さな店を開いた。

意味（1）

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

I was left my father's business.

意味（2）

(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

He is in the motor and insurance businesses.

意味（3）

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!

意味（4）

(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

Business has been slow lately.

意味（5）

(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

I shall take my business elsewhere.

意味（6）

(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.

意味（7）

(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

I studied business at Harvard.

意味（8）

(countable) A particular situation or activity.

This UFO stuff is a mighty strange business.

意味（9）

(countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.

Our principal business here is to get drunk.

意味（10）

(uncountable) Something involving one personally.

That's none of your business.

意味（11）

(uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.

意味（12）

(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,[…]

意味（13）

(acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.

The business with the hat is a fine example of the difficulty of distinguishing between 'natural' and 'formal' acting.

意味（14）

(countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

I'm sure his goons will go through the ship like a business of ferrets, and they'll want to look in our baggage.

意味（15）

(uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

These new phones are the business!

意味（16）

(slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

Your ferret left his business all over the floor.

意味（17）

(uncountable, slang) Disruptive shenanigans.

I haven't seen cartoons giving someone the business since the 1990s.

businesses （ plural ）