| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | business, dealing, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, trade, traffic, truck, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | form of communication |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, association, channel, commerce, communion, companionship, connection, influence, intercourse, junction, meeting, network, touch, union, unity |
| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
| Synonyms: | affairs, balls in air, business, commerce, concerns, doings, intercourse, irons in fire, matters, proceedings, ropes, sale, strings, things, trade, traffic, transactions, truck, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
| Synonyms: | barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, shuffling, substitution, supplanting, supplantment, swap, switch, tit for tat, traffic, transaction, transfer, transposing, transposition, truck |
| Main Entry: | finance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economic affairs |
| Synonyms: | accounts, banking, business, commerce, economics, financial affairs, investment, money, money management |
| Main Entry: | industry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manufacturing |
| Synonyms: | big business, business, commerce, commercial enterprise, corporation, management, manufactory, megacorp, mob, monopoly, multinational, outfit*, production, trade, traffic |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | intercourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication; business exchange |
| Synonyms: | association, commerce, communion, connection, contact, converse, correspondence, dealings, give-and-take, interchange, intercommunication, mesh, networking, team play, teamwork, trade, traffic, transactions |
| Antonyms: | miscommunication |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business done at an establishment |
| Synonyms: | buying, clientage, clientele, commerce, custom, shopping, trade, trading, traffic |
| Antonyms: | competition |
| Main Entry: | sale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exchange of object for money |
| Synonyms: | auction, barter, business, buying, clearance, closeout, commerce, consuming, deal, demand, disposal, dumping, enterprise, marketing, negotiation, purchase, purchasing, reduction, selling, trade, transaction, unloading, vending, vendition |