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businesses

NOUN

job, profession

Synonyms

STRONGEST

employment field trade work

STRONG

bag biz calling career craft dodge function game line livelihood occupation pursuit racket specialty vocation

WEAK

métier what one is into

Antonyms

STRONGEST

entertainment fun pastime

STRONG

amusement avocation hobby recreation surrender

WEAK

unemployment

NOUN

company, enterprise

Synonyms

STRONGEST

corporation factory firm house institution market organization partnership shop store venture

STRONG

cartel concern establishment mill monopoly outfit setup syndicate trust

WEAK

Mom and Pop fly-by-night operation megacorp shoestring operation

Antonyms

WEAK

avocation recreation unemployment

NOUN

commerce, trade

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deal industry manufacturing market trading transaction

STRONG

affairs bargaining barter commercialism contracts dealings exchange game industrialism merchandising racket sales selling traffic undertaking

WEAK

buying and selling capital and labor free enterprise production and distribution

Antonyms

WEAK

avocation recreation unemployment

NOUN

personal concern

Synonyms

STRONGEST

interest issue problem

STRONG

affair assignment beeswax duty function happening lookout matter palaver point question responsibility subject task topic

WEAK

carrying on goings-on hanky-panky

Antonyms

STRONG

irresponsibility

WEAK

avocation recreation unemployment

Example Sentences

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Still, Lu said he doesn’t believe sustainable businesses — and a more conscientious consumerism — are dead.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

A defeat in the case for OpenAI could have upended its business model and reverberated to all the businesses that have come to rely on its success—Microsoft and Oracle perhaps the most.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Joe Pinzari, who owns two businesses in Les Quennevais Parade, said he has had to close one of them because of high rents and costs.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Still, Lu said he doesn’t believe sustainable businesses — and a more conscientious consumerism — are dead.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Many of the poorer newly arrived migrants preferred the more down-to-earth experience of smaller, unadorned storefront churches squeezed in among businesses on the commercial strips.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield