Definitions of business:

• noun:   incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

  Example: "His business with the cane was hilarious"

• noun:   the volume of business activity

  Example: "Business is good today"

• noun:   a rightful concern or responsibility

  Example: "It's none of your business"

• noun:   an immediate objective

  Example: "Gossip was the main business of the evening"

• noun:   business concerns collectively

  Example: "Government and business could not agree"

• noun:   a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

  Example: "He bought his brother's business"

• noun:   the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

  Example: "He's not in my line of business"

• noun:   the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

  Example: "Computers are now widely used in business"

• noun:   customers collectively