business
noun
an occupation, profession, or trade.
businesses
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pluralof business.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Lane described the cloud communications platform Twilio — which allows businesses to add voice, text, chat and other features to their software —as a neutral aggregator of the agent boom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
Japanese businesses have urged the government to come up with a comprehensive policy to support foreign residents.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
AI agents are inserting themselves into relationships between businesses and customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Walter’s company has denied wrongdoing, and neither Walter nor his businesses have been charged with a crime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
South Shore hadn’t yet tilted the way other neighborhoods had—with the better-off people long departed for the suburbs, the neighborhood businesses closing one by one, the blight setting in—but the tilt was clearly beginning.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
