business

BUSINESS, noun biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. business is also any temporary employment.1. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.2. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention.You are so much the business of our souls.3. Serious engagement; important occupation, in distinction from trivial affairs.It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.4. Concern; right of action or interposing.'What business has a man with the disputes of others?'5. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.Fitness to govern is a perplexed business 6. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town.They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him