line of business

“I don’t think I could work without a phone in my line of business,” she said, as requests came in for her signature dish, a traditional fermented dumpling.

But it has infused the technology into its main lines of business, such as cloud computing contracts and subscriptions for its email and other online services.

Drug cartels and gangs in Mexico don’t just sell or smuggle drugs; they extort money from nearly every line of business in territories they control.

On one hand, each of these services may not be profitable on their own, so putting them all together allows Amazon to keep those lines of business open, Bond said.

"We added clients and accounts across all lines of business," CEO Brian Moynihan said in a statement.