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business

n. any activity or enterprise entered into for profit. It does not mean it is a company, a corporation, partnership, or have any such formal organization, but it can range from a street peddler to General Motors. It is sometimes significant to determine if an accident, visit, travel, meal or other activity was part of "business" or for pleasure or no particular purpose.

business

(Affair), noun activity, concern, duty, interest, matter, mission, proceeding, proposition, responsibility, task, undertaking
Foreign phrases: Aliena negotia exacto officio geruntur.The business of another is to be carried out with particular care. Constitutum esse eam domum unicuique nostrum debere existimari, ubi quisque sedes et tabulas haberet, suarumque rerum constitutionem fecisset. It is established that the home of each of us is considered to be the place of his abode and books, and where he may have made an essablishment of his business. In suo quisque negotio hebeeior est quam in alieno. Everyone is more dull in his own business than in that of another.

business

(Commerce), noun barter, buying and selling, commercial intercourse, dealings, exchange, industry, merchandising, merchantry, production, trade, traffic, transaction, ventures
Associated concepts: business address, business agent, busiiess corporation, business crimes, business district, business done in state, business enterprise, business expenses, busiiess hours, business interruption insurance, business inviiees, business license, business losses, business name, busiiess paper, business purposes, business records, business restrictions, business secrets, business situs, business trust, business venture, business visitor, doing business, good will of business, in the course of business, interference with busiiess, ordinary course of business, transacting business
Foreign phrases: Ea quae raro accidunt non temere in agendis negotiis computantur.Those things which rarely happen are not to be taken into account in the transaction of business without sufficient reason.

business

(Commercial enterprise), noun cartel, combine, company, concern, corporation, establishment, firm, industry, manufacture, organization, private enterprise, shop, store, syndicate, venture

business

(Occupation), noun activity, avocation, career, craft, duty, employment, endeavor, following, function, handicraft, job, line, livelihood, living, means of support, mission, office, practice, profession, pursuit, trade, undertaking, vocation, walk of life, work

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Prosecutors accused the visitor and businessman of forging 43 car registration papers and swindling the manager.

Manager hoodwinked in Dh2.2m used car deal

The South African businessman was said to have paid the Pakistani consultant money to obtain the required papers from the Department of Economic Development in Dubai and to rent an office for the company that he was planning to set up.

Consultant cleared of forging papers, embezzling partner's Dh18m

Police told the court that the 34-year-old, visited his company's premises upturning tables and demanding repayment because he had contributed money to the amount the businessman had borrowed.

Three suspects remanded for loan-sharking, threats and blackmail

When the 47-year-old businessman visited the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, he was notified that the emailed trade licence was forged.

Con man who embezzled Dh1.4m sentenced in absentia

Citing lack of corroborated and unsubstantiated evidence, presiding judge Urfan Omar acquitted the five Britons of illegal confinement of the businessman, beating him and stealing his money.

Five cleared of confining businessman, stealing his cash

Activating a clause in the contract that stipulated that he could back out of the agreement provided that he paid a fee to the developer, the businessman authorised the couple to recover e1/4470,000.

Couple admit to ripping off Russian boss

The businessman had just exchanged US dollars to dirhams and while he was walking to deposit Dh134,000 in the bank, three Pakistani men mugged him in a street at 10.

Trio jailed for robbing businessman in street

Shortly after the businessman realised that his money was disappearing, he notified the bank's management before an internal investigation revealed that the businessman had been transferring his money to other accounts.

Bank manager, official accused of siphoning off client's Dh26 million

Part of this clearance process requires the sponsor's permission, but the businessman says the department did not contact him and issued the visa while he was abroad on a business trip.

Man sues passport department for SR2.6m

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Culminating its look back on the century in business, FORTUNE magazine has named automobile giant and entrepreneur Henry Ford Businessman of the Century -- beating out runner-up Bill Gates of Microsoft -- and has chosen General Electric's Jack Welch Manager of the Century.

FORTUNE Selects Henry Ford Businessman of the Century; GE's Jack Welch Named Manager of the Century

JEDDAH: A number of Saudi businessmen have expressed their sorrow over the death of Wahib Binzagr, a leading businessman and economist, saying his demise was a big loss for the Kingdom's cultural and business circles.