Synonyms for business
Most common
trade job office craft company enterprise clientele stage business
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Trade
trade, job, office, craft, service, part, work, line, line of work informal, employment, occupation, walk of life, place, interest, art, mission, thing, vocation, function, pursuit, handicraft, task
2. Company — A specific commercial enterprise or establishment
4. Stage business
stage business, byplay rare
Other
commerce, transaction, affair, concern, traffic, matter, dealing, engagement, fesnyng rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
I left my father's business.
- n. 2
A person's occupation, work, or trade.
I'm going to Las Vegas on business.
- n. 3
Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
We do business all over the world.
- n. 4
The volume or amount of commercial trade.
Business has been slow lately.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- businesses → trades, jobs, offices, crafts…
Choose the right word
An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- job You should change your job if the occasion arises.
- office Please tell me the closest station to your office.
- trade Abraham Lincoln's father was a carpenter by trade.
- craft Flower arranging is a traditional craft in Japan.
- company We need a new leader to pull our company together.
- enterprise This is hardly the time to start a new enterprise.
By length
- 3 letters
- job1, art1
- 4 letters
- work1, part1, line1, firm1, task1
- 5 letters
- place1, thing1, trade1, craft1
- 6 letters
- office2, matter2, affair2, byplay
- 7 letters
- company3, service2, mission2, traffic2, concern2, dealing2, pursuit2, fesnyng
- 8 letters
- interest2, industry3, function2, commerce2, employer3, vocation3
- 9 letters
- patronage3, clientele3
- 10 letters
- employment3, enterprise3, engagement3, occupation4, handicraft3
- 11 letters
- transaction3, undertaking4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (office2 = 2 syllables).