–noun

1.	a 3e8 n occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.

2.	the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit.

3.	a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; profit-seeking enterprise or concern.

4.	volume of trade; patronage: Most of the store's business comes from local families.

5.	a building or site where commercial work is carried on, as a factory, store, or office; place of work: His business is on the corner of Broadway and Elm Street.

6.	that with which a person is principally and seriously concerned: Words are a writer's business.

7.	something with which a person is rightfully concerned: What they are doing is none of my business.

8.	affair; project: We were exasperated by the whole business.

9.	an assignment or task; chore: It's your business to wash the dishes now.

10.	Also called piece of business, stage business. Theater. a movement or gesture, esp. a minor one, used by an actor to give expressiveness, drama, detail, etc., to a scene or to help portray a character.

11.	excrement: used as a euphemism.

–adjective

12.	of, noting, or pertaining to business, its organization, or its procedures.

13.	containing, suitable for, or welcoming business or commerce: New York is a good business town.

—Idioms

14.	business is business, profit has precedence over personal considerations: He is reluctant to fire his friend, but business is business.

15.	do one's business, (usually of an animal or child) to defecate or urinate: housebreaking a puppy to do his business outdoors.

16.	get down to business, to apply oneself to serious matters; concentrate on work: They finally got down to business and signed the contract.

17.

give someone the business, Informal. a. to make difficulties for someone; treat harshly: Instead of a straight answer they give him the business with a needless run-around. b. to scold severely; give a tongue-lashing to: The passengers will give the bus driver the business if he keeps driving so recklessly.

18.	have no business, to have no right: You have no business coming into this house.

19.	mean business, to propose to take ac 47f tion or be serious in intent; be in earnest: By the fire in his eye we knew that he meant business.

20.	mind one's own business, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others: When he inquired about the noise coming from the neighbor's apartment, he was told to mind his own business.

–verb (used without object)

1.	to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.

2.	to move or go from one place or point to another.

3.	to proceed or advance in any way.

4.	to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.

5.	to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.

6.	Informal. to move with speed.

7.	to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.

8.	Basketball. walk (def. 9).

9.	to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

–verb (used with object)

10.	to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.

11.	to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.

12.	to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.

–noun

13.	the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets.

14.	travels, a. journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels. b. journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels. c. such an account or work.

15.	the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.