| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business |
| Synonyms: | affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commerce, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trade, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | barter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trade goods or services |
| Synonyms: | bargain, exchange, haggle, swap, trade, traffic, truck |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
| Synonyms: | affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trading, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | substitute, replace |
| Synonyms: | alternate, barter, convert, displace, exchange, interchange, invert, remove, reverse, shift, supplant, swap, switch around, trade, transmit, transpose |
| Main Entry: | commercial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning business, marketing |
| Synonyms: | across the counter, bartering, commissary, economic, exchange, financial, fiscal, for sale, in demand, in the market, market, marketable, mercantile, merchandising, monetary, pecuniary, popular, profit-making, profitable, retail, retailing, saleable, sales, supplying, trade, trading, wholesale, wholesaling |
| Antonyms: | noncommercial |
| Main Entry: | cut a deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a deal |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, dicker, do business, hammer out a deal, negotiate, trade, work out a deal |
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, buy and sell, dicker, hammer out deal, handle, horse trade, knock down price, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, work out deal |
| Antonyms: | deny, refuse |
| Main Entry: | dicker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bargain; argue about |
| Synonyms: | barter, buy and sell, chaffer, cut a deal, haggle, hammer out a deal, huckster, negotiate, palter, trade, work out a deal |
| Antonyms: | agree |
| Main Entry: | disposal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parting with or throwing something away |
| Synonyms: | auctioning, bartering, chucking, clearance, conveyance, demolishing, demolition, destroying, destruction, discarding, dispatching, dispensation, disposition, dumping, ejection, jettison, jettisoning, junking, relegation, relinquishment, removal, riddance, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, selling, trading, transfer, transference, vending |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping, retention |