Деловой английский- расширяем активный словарный запас article BUSINESS from Longman and example sentences

busi‧ness S1      W1 /"bûznÂs/
1buying or selling goods or services [uncountable]      the activity of making money
by producing or buying and selling goods, or providing services [↪ commerce,
trade]:
Students on the course learn about all aspects of business.
We      do business with        a number of Italian companies.
Vanessa decided to      go into business        as an art-dealer.
set up/start up in business     
The scheme offers free advice to people wanting to set up in business.
In order to     stay in business, you must do better than your competitors.
the advertising/music/fashion etc business      
Carl began in the music business by running a recording studio.
business activities/interests etc       
He has a wide range of business interests.
2company [countable]    an organization such as a company, shop, or factory that
produces or sells goods or provides a service:
She now has her own $25 million home-shopping business.
They don't know how to  run a business.
The company began as a small    family business (=owned and controlled by one family).
Owners of       small businesses (=that employ only a few people)       will be hit hardest
by these tax changes.
big business (=large and powerful companies in general) 
Does big business have more control over our everyday lives than our elected
governments?
the business community (=people who work in business generally) 
the international business community
3how much work a company has [uncountable]      the amount of work a company does
or the amount of money it makes:
We're now       doing   twice as much   business        as we did last year.
Exports account for 72% of overall business.
business is good/bad/slow etc   
Business is slow during the summer.
drum up business (=try to get more work for you or your company)        
Perot was in Europe, drumming up business for his new investment company.
4for your job [uncountable]     work that you do as part of your job:
She's in New York this week     on business (=for her work).
Hi Maggie! Is this phone call   business or pleasure?
business trip/meeting etc       
We discussed the idea over a business lunch.
useful  business contacts
5what someone should be involved in [uncountable]
a) if something is not your business or none of your business, you should not
be involved in it or ask about it:
It was not her business, she decided, to ask where the money came from.
It's    none of your business   how much I weigh.
'Who's that girl you were with?' '      Mind your own business (=Don't ask questions
about something that does not concern you)!'
Are you going out with Kate tonight?    'That's my business' (=it doesn't concern
you, so don't ask me questions about it).
b) if it is someone's business to do something, it is their duty or responsibility
to do it
it is the business of somebody to do something  
It is the business of government to listen to the various groups within society.
6things to be dealt with [uncountable]  things that need to be done or discussed:
Okay, let's     get down to business (=start doing or discussing something).
'Is there       any other business?' the chairman asked.
7matter [singular]      a situation or activity, especially one that you have a particular
opinion about or attitude towards
a serious/strange/funny etc business    
Leon regards keeping fit as a serious business.
Tanya found     the whole business      ridiculous.
8 be in business
a) to be involved in business activities:
The company has been in business for over thirty years.
b) spoken       to have all that you need to start doing something:
I've just got to buy the paint and then we're in business.
9 (go) out of business  if a company goes out of business, or something puts it
out of business, it stops operating, especially because of financial problems:
Higher interest rates will drive small firms out of business.
10 be back in business  to be working or operating in a normal way again:
The band are back in business after a long break.
11 somebody was (just) minding their own business       spoken  used to say that someone
was not doing anything unusual or wrong at the time when something unfair or
bad happened to them:
I was driving along, minding my own business, when the police stopped my car.
12 go about your business       to do the things that you normally do:
The street was full of ordinary people going about their business.
13 make it your business to do something        to make a special effort to do something:
Ruth made it her business to get to know the customers.
14 mean business        informal        to be serious about doing something even if it involves
harming someone:
The border is guarded by troops who mean business.
15 unfinished business  something you need to discuss further with someone or
a situation that has not yet reached a satisfactory solution:
The sudden death of a loved one can often leave the bereaved with an agonising
sense of unfinished business.
16 business is business spoken  used to say that profit is the most important
thing to consider:
We can't afford to employ someone who isn't good at the job - business is business.
17 business as usualBBT when someone or something is still working or operating
normally when you think they might not be:
Despite last night's scare, it was business as usual in the White House today.
18 have no business doing something/have no business to do something    to do something
you should not be doing:
He was drunk and had no business driving.
19 not be in the business of doing something    to not be intending to do something
because you think it is a bad idea:
I'm not in the business of selling my best players.
20 and all that business        spoken  informal        and other things of the same general
kind:
She handles the publicity and all that business.
21 (it's) the business  British English informal        used to say that something is
very good or works well:
Have you seen David's new car? It's the business!
22 do the business      British English informal
a) to do what you are expected to do or what people want you to do:
Come on, then, and do the business.
b) to have sex
➔        big business ; ➔ funny business at funny (3) ; ➔ like
nobody's business at nobody1 (2) ; ➔ monkey business at monkey1 (3), show
businessWORD FOCUS: company WORD FOCUS: company
similar words:  firm, business
a big company:  corporation, multinational, conglomerate
an Internet company:    dot-com
a company that is owned by a larger company:    subsidiary, affiliate
abbreviations used in company names:    Ltd (Limited)
Co. (Company)
Corp. (Corporation)
PLC (Public Limited Company)    British English, Pty. (Proprietary)     used in Australia
and South Africacompany

➔ See also       company
                        
                Better Business Bureau, the     
                        
                        
                big business noun       
                        
                        
                business card noun      
                        
                        
                business class noun     
                        
                        
                business end noun       
                        
                        
                business hours noun     
                        
                        
                business park noun      
                        
                        
                business person noun    
                        
                        
                business plan noun      
                        
                        
                business studies noun   
                        
                        
                business suit noun      
                        
                        
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Extra dictionary examples

"Is this trip for business or pleasure?'' "Business, I'm afraid.''

"What type of business are you in?'' "I run a catering company.''

"Where's Michael?'' "He's at a business meeting.''

Business in Europe has been badly affected by economic conditions in Asia.

Business is really bad at the moment. They may have to sell some of their factories
overseas.

Business was good until June and then sales fell because people were on vacation.

As an M.B.A. student, you study all aspects of business.

Building the new highway will be good for business.

Don and his wife run their own business.

For kids, playing is serious business.

Gerald left, saying he had some important business to attend to.

He's been in the advertising business for over 20 years now, and he wants to
get out.

He handles the mail and all that business.

His oldest daughter, 31, owns a small printing business in Fresno.

His sons have worked in the family business for years.

I don't want to argue about this any more -- I'm sick of the whole business.

I have to go to Tokyo next month on business.

I was in London last month because I had some business there.

In our business the first rule is that the customer is always right.

In the old days, when business was booming, he used to fly to New York twice
a week.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of
what constitutes enterprise and business success.

Few of us are fortunate enough to have a chance to try working with our partner
before we go into business together.

Hancock, a native of Great Britain, is a veteran of the computer business.

His heirs developed the business to adapt to changing modes of transport.

I made it my business to be there at dinner the following day.

But most analysts agree that many health insurance companies would be driven
out of business.

Farmers and ranchers are still going out of business on the plains today.

If they were not, bird-watching and natural history museums would each go out
of business.

It was assumed that I might well put a customer or two out of business.

Now that the war was over the Navy was, in effect, out of business, and it sought
repossession.

Rather, the independent-minded newspapers believe that the government now wants
to drive them out of business.

The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited
report.

The league was out of business after three seasons.

Buying a home, although a serious business, can be straight forward, even fun.

Defeat is a serious business in this part of the world.

Detection was a serious business, and perhaps he should leave it alone.

Didn't they realise that mountaineering was a serious business?

For them the climb was a serious business.

Government is a serious business, and his Liberal Democrats are in no way ready
for it.

He was young, and marriage was a serious business.

It's a funny business, comedy.
Before we end the meeting, is there any other business?

Is there any other business before we close the meeting?

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

As a merger between genetic enterprises it is, like any other business with two
partners, liable to discord.

As it turned out, I needn't have troubled myself over any other business with
Stone.

Just like any other business, the workshops will have to make a profit.

Like any other business, it is all to do with contacts and getting introductions.

New business Public relations consultancies no more want to stand still than
any other business enterprise.

The nightclub and gaming business is run on the same principles as any other
business.

The public relations business is no different from any other business in this
respect.

This means that profits on oil income will be treated like gains from any otherbusinesss
by being subject to normal corporation tax.
After appearing to be in terminal decline the monarchy is back in business.

By the summer of 1992 the dress patrols were back in business.

Last week, Peron was back in business, with a few cosmetic changes.

Male speaker We're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business
soon.

Nice to see Dave Hill's barber is back in business.

Stop Press: Liverpool is back in business.

The company was back in business.

The Cumberland Tavern - now under new management - is back in business as a rock
venue.
I have finger paints and paper for the kids, so we're in business.

In all the twenty years I've been in business this is the worst period I've seen
for sales.

The insurance companies are in business to make money, not waste it.

When I qualified I set up in business as a financial consultant.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

A few minutes later, a wall of water crashed over the lip of the Falls and Niagara
was in business again.

I found three trowels in the market, and we were in business.

Jack knows talent when he sees it, and pretty soon the two are in business together.

Now both his parents are in business.

Solicitors and barristers in private practice are in business and must make a
profit to survive.

Talk with people you know who are in business and ask them to introduce you to
their accountants.

You are in business, and you are missing a great business opportunity.
As the heritage boom gathers pace, made-to-measure company and family biographies
have become big business.

But this ideology, though revolutionary in content, in fact sustained capitalist
relations of production in general and bigbusinesss in particular.

He wanted to build a big business selling running shoes.

In its many forms, disposal of the dead has always been big business, and always
subject to fashion.

In many big business disputes, the companies on both sides agree to seal the
records.

Nevertheless, in I978 on Wall Street it was flaky to think that home mortgages
could be big business.

Read in studio Still to come on Central News, new guidelines for a big business.

We are probably also acquainted with examples where local and national government,
large and bigbusinesss impinge on the local community.
Floirat is survived by a daughter and a grandson, who has assumed some of his
business activities.

Here, the two men have been careful to separate their business interests.

Humanity has more at stake in this than business interests.

My business interests are declared, but, contrary to some popular media suppositions,
I am not connected with the Lonrho organisation.

Or the business interests that provide campaign cash and are more philosophically
in tune with the congressional leadership?

Robinson spent the years of the civil war and Interregnum building up businesss
interests and achieving prominence in City politics.

Under the new approach, overhead costs are tied directly to products or services
and costs are reported for specificbusinesss activities.

We see him move slowly through the ranks, from fencing stolen goods to torching
ailing business interests.
Despite the fire damage, it's business as usual at the barber shop.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

Back in Los Angeles it was business as usual.

How could they proceed with business as usual?

It will soon be back to business as usual.

So it was business as usual.

The next day was business as usual.

This change has involved more than just mixing up kids and carrying on business
as usual.

This is more than dictatorial business as usual.

We need to be clear that, if Bush defeats Al Gore, there will no longer be business
as usual.
A mail reader program helps you read, send and organize e-mail correspondence
with friends, colleagues and business contacts.

Additionally I might have info about further education and job opportunities,
plus business contacts.

Another holds 24 numbers tagged with the names of your business contacts.

As a result it is difficult for them to make business contacts.

As a result, sales increased, trade relationships were enhanced and new business
contacts opened up.

Modest wage and price pressures were reported by most business contacts.

Other clients were reached via business contacts or friends.

Whatever their standards, they were successful, collecting money for the charities
whilst making good business contacts.
For these guys, business is business and worker safety is not important.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

But business is business wherever you are.

However, business is business and pleasure is pleasure.
For the majority though business is bad, but they're fighting on.

If the exchange rate is good, business is good; if not, business is bad.

This also gets round problems of fluctuation, when business is slow, they do
not have to maintain a regular workforce.
But not everyone is travelling for business or pleasure.

He will be able to make full use of his machine, either flying commercially or
privately, for business or pleasure.

I've always been available, for business or pleasure.

We offer you a comfortable and relaxed holiday or short break for business or
pleasure.
Clearly he saw nothing odd about business meetings in the small hours.

Eugene had brought the map back after a business trip, and Wyatt had promptly
memorized many of the stops.

Open classes and a Ploughman's lunch will be followed by the business meeting.

Please send in your suggestions quickly for a venue and ideas on the form the
programme could take following thebusinesss meeting.

Q: I sometimes have enough time to get in a round of golf before or after a business
meeting in Chicago.

Scheduled an out-of-town business trip.

The afternoon will be devoted to the business meeting which is always very interesting.
He had abhorred many of the traders of Tangier who would do business with either
side.

It is a mark of respect for those you intend to do business with.

It was always a pleasure to do business with him.

Mabel had an uncle in Los Angeles who worked for a company that did business
with Tan.

Maybe I could do business with this guy, I thought.

Or I might go and see a company here that we're planning to do business with.

They socialize with them, do business with them.
Come on you Reds and do the business for the supporters because they will be
giving it everything for you!

Don't drink water - fish do the business in it.

If your regular antagonist has a Chaos army and favours daemons then a Daemonslayer
will do the business very nicely.

Inclined to be an unpredictable live outing, the Veggies do the business with
an energising blur of Neds-ish guitar fodder.

Now they appear to be looking to a Second Division centre forward to do the business.

O'Connor will have that task and can do the business if on his game.

They like the game of golf as much as they do the business of golf.

Unfortunately, despite the commercial ban, whales are not being politely left
alone to do the business.
After all, Symington, like them, is a man who seems to prefer politicking about
business to just doing business.

Blockbuster Video stores reported doing blockbuster business in New York.

College had been a first degree in law at Berkeley followed by a year at Columbia
in New York doing business studies.

He reached the large block of offices, at least eighty firms doing business within
this hunk of concrete and glass.

He says that it's doing the business no good at all.
Cheltenham & Gloucester and the Yorkshire are taking the discount route to drum
up business.

They bought a truck and proceeded to drum up business.

Her organization estimates that as many as 30 such firms are doing business.

The cousins up from Wylye were doing a brisk business at Abney Park. 45.

They are one of the costs of doing business.
Terry wants to work in the family business.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

He joined the family business after his graduation in 1988.

He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short
rein.

In the Budget, we announced that we would take most family businesses out of
Inheritance Tax altogether.

Putting an economic rug back under the family means paying unaccustomed attention
to issues of family business.

Since then it has become a complete family business.

Voice over Today the Prescott family business in nearby Didcot remained closed.

We can get real about the economic facts of life and about tending to family
business.
Okay, class, let's get down to business.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

After the initial courtesies we got down to business.

Anyway, let's get down to business.

At bast, at 10: 45, we got down to business.

Hardly enough time to forge a friendship before getting down to business.

Should negotiating executives discuss the political scene or the latest art exhibition
before getting down to business?

The next morning, Symington got down to business -- personal business.

Then he returns to his room and gets down to business.

Well, now, shall we get down to business?
The street was filled with ordinary people going about their business.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his businesss,
never using his influence to manipulate others.

Normally it went about its business either on foot or in an arabeah, the horse-drawn
cab distinctive to the city.

Sara went about her business, more troubled than ever about Jenny's imminent
arrival.

The 49ers are counting on Deese to epitomize that professionalism as he goes
about his business with Smith.

They went about their business, expecting him to appear at any moment.

While Deion Sanders received most of the pre-game ballyhoo, his bookend Brown
went about his business with little or no fanfare.

Yesterday, as the group of pickers went about their business, police said there
had been no further incidents.

You have to laugh about it and go about your business.
I might go into business with Brian.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

Few of us are fortunate enough to have a chance to try working with our partner
before we go into business together.

In August 1826 Artis left Milton to go into business on his own again.

Nielsen was teaching theater at the Lee Strasberg Institute 12 years ago when
she decided to go into business on her own.

Sometimes I've thought of going into business.

Towne knew a good thing when he saw it and in October 1868 went into business
with Yale to make them.

Two brothers decided to go into business buying and selling beds.
Ruth made it her business to get to know the customers.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

But before you leave I suggest that you make it your business to find out.

I made it my business to be there at dinner the following day.

I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in
a house.

Increasingly, companies are making it their business to develop programs for
serving both the worker and the bottom line.

Quinn knew this because he had made it his business to know such things.

She made it her business to find out.

These villagers - of course they would make it their business to know anyone
who was rich and whose father lived so near!

They made it their business to worm a curl of something out of you
And to prove we mean business, our members will stage a one-day strike next week.

Firm action would show both sides that the EU and the UN really meant business.

The man had a gun. It was obvious he meant business.

Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.

But as the oil men realised that we meant business, seizures began to drop.

But when it bites, it means business.

For one local company it's meant business taking off like a rocket.

One of the quintet not only means business but high-minded, selfless business.

They looked as though they meant business.

This does not necessarily mean businesses must avoid all such one-of-a-kinds
whatever their nature.

Those boys knew we meant business.

Zhou had discarded his usual severe tunic for a gray Western business suit, and
he meant business.
I don't. Mind my own business, that's my motto.
All right, this was none of my business.

I decided that the answers were none of my business, probably not, definitely
not.

It's none of my business.

It was none of his business, anyway.

Lisa sensed he considered that was none of her business.

The Jakowski operation is really none of your business, is it?

Keep your mouth shut. Mind your own business.
Labour may not be in the business of re-connecting with the past, but its attachment
to the future is still confused.
Do you travel abroad on business more than three times a year?

Linda had to go to Chicago on business.

She drives to Tijuana several times a month on business.

The family was living in the Palace Hotel in Japan because my father was there
on business.

With her husband frequently away on business, Berenice turns to a close friend
for help and support.
And the idea of this odd man, his chimpanzee and oxygen tent in tow, running
a business is bizarre.

If the demands of running a business weren't enough to contend with.

In addition, young people will learn something about starting up and running
a business.

In Tampa, Fla., he posed with elementary school students learning how to run
businesses.

It will continue to run a business travel operation.

Local restaurant chefs will discuss staying creative while running businesses
at noon Sunday.

Village men told her that a woman should not run a business.

You supposed to be running a business.
I was just walking along, minding my own business, when this guy ran straight
into me.
About ten thousand people were moved out, not counting the ones who owned small
businesses along the edge.

Historically, he said, entrepreneurship was the Cinderella of business studies,
wrongly confused with the management of small businesses.

I know a number of people who run very successful small businesses that make
very large profits.

Numerous loans have been made to small businesses.

One participant had conducted some research into small businesses in West Belfast
for a research report.

The Business Skills Seminars for small businesses were attended by over 2,300
people during the year.

The cost was an insurmountable barrier for many small businesses, and these new
business strategies created many side effects.

We will introduce rebates for small businesses to protect those who are setting
up in business or struggling to stay in business.
And pub landlords who operate on overdrafts may be forced to put up to 2p on
a pint to stay in business.

Finishing up by being paid is the only way to stay in business.

Not every employer is able to accommodate every work / family conflict and stay
in business.

Some farmers made enough money to buy more land and survive drought years and
stay in business.

The worst hit firms might decide that they must have a reduction in pay in order
to stay in business.

This new capitalism is a cut-throat enterprise: to stay in business you must
not only compete with but beat your competitors.

Those who stayed in business reduced their herd to numbers which they could more
easily feed and take care of year round.

We will introduce rebates for small businesses to protect those who are setting
up in business or struggling to stay in business.
Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time.

In both the music business and the consumer electronics business, a whole lot
of shaking out has been going on.

Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for
singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity.

It just shows you that the music business is like football: unpredictable.

James Green, right, is twenty and is just starting out in the advertising business.

Other members of the Ramones have mentioned starting new bands or keeping a hand
in the music business.

Strip away the insincerity and the hype from the music business and see it for
what it is, a jungle.

With a turnover of about £250m, Virgin Records is one of the few independents
left in the music business.
Beware of comparing your writing to that of others in the business community.

He also has made Sinclair a prominent player in the business community.

In October, Castro visited New York and received intense interest from the media
and the business community.

Meanwhile, however, the business community has come out four-square behind the
reforms.

Some members of the government and the business community are sceptical regarding
the act's real benefits to the country.

The aim is to provide a comprehensive range of services and expertise on a national
scale to thebusinesss community in particular.

The Chancellor will try to sell his Budget to the business community as one geared
towards promoting enterprise and investment.

We want an agreement that promotes business and does not impose burdens or barriers
upon the business community.
General Crook, who had died earlier that year, would surely have had contempt
for the whole business.

He sounded as if he was thoroughly disgusted by the whole business and she felt
a pang of dismay.

I was completely new to the whole business.

That would certainly turn the tables, Blue thinks, that would certainly stand
the whole business on its head.

There are seven priests, with seven trumpets, and the whole business takes exactly
seven days.

There had to be more to the whole business than Himmler was telling him, that
much was obvious.

Up to now, Vyner has been joint managing director of the whole business, along
with David Quarmby.

You can only be one or the other because the whole business of supply and demand
is so complex.
Each of these women had left some unfinished business.

However, during our hand-over General Churchill mentioned one piece of unfinished
business.

Obon is for closing off unfinished business, for restoring bonds, for healing
and remembering.

One bit of unfinished business was to obtain for Joe the Legion of Merit award.

Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly
to mind, along with its unfinished business.

Then he would be up and about, able to apply himself to unfinished business.

There was definitely some unfinished business between the two of them, but he
was extremely tired.

Those people that you have unfinished business with.