business

Roget category 625

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.1. Conceptional volition

#625. Business

noun

business, occupation, employment — pursuit etc. 622 — what one is doing, what one is about — affair, concern, matter, case.
matter in hand, irons in the fire — thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care — duty etc. 926.
part, role, cue — province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line — walk, walk of life — beat, round, routine — race, career.
office, place, post, chargeship^†, incumbency, living — situation, berth, employ — service etc. (servitude) 749 — engagement — undertaking etc. 676.
vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty — industry, art — industrial arts — craft, mystery, handicraft — trade etc. (commerce) 794.
exercise — work etc. (action) 680 — avocation — press of business etc. (activity) 682.

verb

pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in — employ oneself in, employ oneself upon — occupy oneself with, concern oneself with — make it one's business etc. n. — undertake etc. 676 — enter a profession — betake oneself to, turn one's hand to — have to do with etc. (do) 680.
office, place, post, chargeship^†, incumbency, living — situation, berth, employ — service etc. (servitude) 749 — engagement — undertaking etc. 676.
drive a trade — carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business etc. n. — keep a shop — ply one's task, ply one's trade — labor in one's vocation — pursue the even tenor of one's way — attend to business, attend to one's work.
officiate, serve, act — act one's part, play one's part — do duty — serve the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of — hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation — hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation.
be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on — have one's hands in, have in hand — have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders — bear the burden — have one's hands full etc. (activity) 682.
be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil — pass through one's hands.

adjective

businesslike — workaday — professional — official, functional — busy etc. (actively employed) 682 — on hand, in hand, in one's hands — afoot — on foot, on the anvil — going on — acting.

adverb

in the course of business, all in one's day's work — professionally etc.

adjective

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phrase

a business with an income at its heels" [Cowper]; amoto quaeramus seria ludo [Lat.] [Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Lat.] [Tacitus].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

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