| 单词 | business |
| 释义 | business (bɪznɪs ) Word forms: businesses 1. uncountable noun A1 Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services. ...young people seeking a career in business. Jennifer has an impressive academic and business background. ...Harvard Business School. Synonyms: trade, selling, trading, industry 2. uncountable noun B2 Business is used when talking about how many products or services a company is able to sell. If business is good, a lot of products or services are being sold and if business is bad, few of them are being sold. They worried that German companies would lose business. Business is booming. 3. countable noun A2 A business is an organization which produces and sells goods or which provides a service. The company was a family business. The majority of small businesses go broke within the first twenty-four months. He was short of cash after the collapse of his business. Synonyms: establishment, company, firm, concern 4. uncountable noun [oft on NOUN] B1 Business is work or some other activity that you do as part of your job and not for pleasure. I'm here on business. You can't mix business with pleasure. ...business trips. 5. singular noun B2 You can use business to refer to a particular area of work or activity in which the aim is to make a profit. May I ask you what business you're in? ...the music business. Synonyms: profession, work, calling, job 6. singular noun You can use business to refer to something that you are doing or concerning yourself with. ...recording Ben as he goes about his business. There was nothing left for the teams to do but get on with the business of racing. [+ of] 7. uncountable noun You can use business to refer to important matters that you have to deal with. The most important business was left to the last. I've got some unfinished business to attend to. 8. uncountable noun [with poss] B2 If you say that something is your business, you mean that it concerns you personally and that other people have no right to ask questions about it or disagree with it. My sex life is my business. If she doesn't want the police involved, that's her business. It's not our business. Synonyms: concern, affair, problem, worry 9. singular noun You can use business to refer in a general way to an event, situation, or activity. For example, you can say something is 'a wretched business' or you can refer to 'this assassination business'. We have sorted out this wretched business at last. This whole business is very puzzling. 10. singular noun You can use business when describing a task that is unpleasant in some way. For example, if you say that doing something is a costly business, you mean that it costs a lot. [informal] Coastal defence is a costly business. Parenting can be a stressful business. Synonyms: matter, issue, subject, point 11. See also big business, show business 12. do business phrase B1 If two people or companies do business with each other, one sells goods or services to the other. I was fascinated by the different people who did business with me. [+ with] 13. have no business phrase If you say that someone has no business to be in a place or to do something, you mean that they have no right to be there or to do it. Really I had no business to be there at all. 14. be in business phrase If you say you are in business, you mean you have everything you need to start something immediately. [informal, spoken] All you need is a microphone, and you're in business. 15. be in business phrase B2 A company that is in business is operating and trading. You can't stay in business without cash. 16. to mean business phrase If you say that someone means business, you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing. [informal] Now people are starting to realise that he means business. Synonyms: be serious, be determined, be resolute, be set on something 17. to mind your own business phrase B2 If you say to someone ' mind your own business' or 'it's none of your business', you are rudely telling them not to ask about something that does not concern them. [informal] I asked Laura what was wrong and she told me to mind my own business. 18. make it one's business to do sth phrase [VERB inflects, PHRASE to-infinitive] If you make it your business to do something, you decide to do it, because you are interested in it or because you want to find out something. She made it her business to find out. 19. not be in the business of doing sth phrase [VERB inflects, PHR -ing/n] If you say that you are not in the business of doing something, you are emphasizing that you do not do it, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that someone thinks you do. [emphasis] We are not in the business of subsidising scroungers. 20. out of business phrase B2 If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money. Thousands of firms could go out of business. 21. the business phrase [verb-link PHRASE] If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind. [informal, approval] When you watch him in training, you realise that this lad is the business. 22. business as usual phrase In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual, you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do. The Queen was determined to show it was business as usual. Quotations: Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thingGnomologia The business of America is businessAddress to the Society of Newspaper Editors Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than MethodLetters to His Son Here's the rule for bargains: `Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business preceptMartin Chuzzlewit The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat The public be damned! I'm working for my stockholders I'll keep it short and sweet. Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in businessThe Simpsons business before pleasure Idioms: do a land-office business [US, old-fashioned] to be very successful The Paradiso, one of the capital's newest and most luxurious clubs, was doing a land-office business. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers mean business to be serious and determined about what you are doing One of them poked a shotgun at me. I could see he meant business. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers do the business [informal] to do what is needed to achieve a result. Compare with do the trick. Now I could be judged solely on my achievements as a player, and I was absolutely determined to prove I could still do the business. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers do something like nobody's business to do something a lot or very well I mean Geoffrey can chat like nobody's business. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers business as usual said to mean that everything is continuing in the normal way, even though something unpleasant or unexpected has happened Mr Fitzwater told reporters: It is business as usual; this isn't the kind of crisis that requires us to drop everything else. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers be in business [spoken] to be able to start doing something because you have got everything ready for it It plugs in here, right? Okay, we're in business. Let's see how it works, guys. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers monkey business dishonest or unacceptable behaviour You try any monkey business and you're in trouble, right? Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: business climate Its business climate index increased from 98.7 to 99.6 as a result. Times, Sunday Times They may, of course, return in future years as the business climate improves. Times, Sunday Times And a whopping 65 per cent of bosses believe the business climate will either get worse or fail to improve over the next 12 months. The Sun The business climate for car manufacturers has deteriorated rapidly since, however. Times, Sunday Times It seems to be having an effect: the business climate indicator went up and unemployment has fallen to 8%, the lowest in nearly a quarter of a century. Times, Sunday Times But taxes are only one area of concern to the business community. Times, Sunday Times This has alarmed the business community, which has warned of the risk of particular shortages in agriculture, hospitality and social care. Times,Sunday Times The business community, particularly small businesses, are expressing concern, though. Times, Sunday Times The other, more important, was a calming effect on the business community. Times,Sunday Times And more than just a licence: by linking selfishness and greed to rationality, economics instructed the business community to judge itself on these criteria. The Times Literary Supplement He claimed that the latter helped him to outwit business competitors; investing was, to him, another game. Times, Sunday Times When opposition players or business competitors sense you genuinely believe you will win, a sense of fear or insecurity enters their own mindset. The Sun Investigations into waste scams found evidence of illegal operators using intimidation to scare off business competitors. Times, Sunday Times They were fierce competitors in the realm of news and ideas, but no longer business competitors in the truest sense. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The period between 1895 and 1904 saw a great merger movement as business competitors combined into ever more giant corporations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The third is a business consultant who wants to be the CEO of a blue-chip company. Times, Sunday Times (2008) She was a business consultant with our largest bank - handled public relations, things like that. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002) His father is a business consultant and his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Credit insurance gives companies the confidence to trade as it pays out if a business customer cannot settle their bill. Times,Sunday Times So how do you check out a new business customer? Times, Sunday Times One small business customer who received the letter said that it was insensitive. Times, Sunday Times The banking industry has been fighting against so-called authorised push payment fraud, where a payment has been mistakenly authorised by the personal or business customer. Times, Sunday Times It's not a business customer. canada.com Since 1991, a thoroughly corrupt business elite has favoured cronyism over reform. Times, Sunday Times It's about trade - not for our benefit but for that of the political and business elite. The Sun But the reticence of the business elite has scuppered any hope that the economic consequences of independence would play a central role in the debate. Times, Sunday Times The commission's ivory tower fixation with boardroom quotas smacks of a political elite obsessing about a business elite. Times, Sunday Times Nevertheless, a small number of monarchists, mainly in the army and the business elite, continue to support him, and two royalist parties are contesting the election. Times, Sunday Times This month the university has its first intake of mobile computing technology, business enterprise and applied theology students. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The specific job of entrepreneurship in business enterprise is to make today's business capable of making the future, of making itself into a different business. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974) The measurements available for the key areas of a business enterprise are still haphazard by and large. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001) Yet profitability is not the purpose of but a limiting factor on business enterprise and business activity. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974) Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974) Others treat the partnership as a business entity and, like a corporation, vest the partnership with a separate legal personality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The latter meaning that the business entity makes payments prior to the agreed upon due date, or pays more than the agreed amount. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Those slices depict the whole lifespan of one business entity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Debt also adds significant risk to the business entity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many countries have forms of business entity unique to that country, although there are equivalents elsewhere. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This sends a signal to foreign companies that they must act in accordance with business ethics. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Bonus schemes encouraged bad business ethics and morals went out of the window. The Sun (2008) The nearby dentist has already shown that his business ethics leave much to be desired. Globe and Mail (2003) I have not talked to a single business executive who thinks the rate cut was a good idea. Times, Sunday Times At times a pastor, like any business executive who's just made a necessary but unpopular decision, cannot publicize his inner uncertainty about the decision. Christianity Today He altered the relationship between the business executive and the product. Times, Sunday Times The business executive said that he was concerned at what would happen if he were arrested. Times, Sunday Times To play the serious, high-powered business executive? Times, Sunday Times Finished goods are defined as commodities that are ready for sale to the final-demand usereither an individual consumer or a business firm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 National or international organizations, governmental bodies, business firms or agencies that require a significant and sustained volume of translation may maintain a department staffed by full-time, permanent translators. Globe and Mail However, consumers did not ask for these antitrust actionsrival business firms did. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Managerial economics applies microeconomic analysis to specific decisions in business firms or other management units. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The town centre contains many business firms, a few of which can be mentioned here. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other forecasters expect stronger business investment and consumer spending. Times, Sunday Times (2018) It is instead to provide public goods, like infrastructure, that will encourage business investment. Times, Sunday Times (2017) We need to see a handover to business investment and exports. Times, Sunday Times (2014) But sluggish business investment has been one of the big disappointments of the past couple of years. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Official figures for business investment after the crisis no longer look quite as bad as the readings that had the government's budget watchdog scratching its head. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Business was good until the 1970s, but all that has changed. Times, Sunday Times (2006) I took on a lot of business when business was good but in hindsight, maybe I should have gone a little slower, 'he said. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He insisted that business was good despite the absence of customers. Times, Sunday Times (2011) When business was slow he would find time to chat and to tease me. The Sun (2014) Business was slow at first, but after the credit crisis consumers sought alternatives to the banks. Times, Sunday Times (2014) During the 1950s, when business was slow, it set up a sideline as a ship trader, buying and selling large vessels. Times, Sunday Times (2006) They took out a 'huge business loan' and spent 2.5m totally overhauling and redecorating the house. Times, Sunday Times Look at the £330bn small business loan scheme announced in the budget almost four weeks ago. Times,Sunday Times And they changed my business loan from 4.6 per cent to a huge seven per cent. The Sun Do you need a good credit rating for a business loan? The Sun Unable to pay his 100,000 mortgage, or an 83,000 business loan taken out against his house, he filed for bankruptcy. Times, Sunday Times Inquiring how you are and telling you to have a nice day are part of the new code of human resource management and business management. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Courses on offer from this year include prehistoric archeology, aerospace engineering and business management with informatics. Times, Sunday Times (2012) They mapped out a plan for my transition to civilian life and set up courses on business management, accountancy and workplace health and safety. The Sun (2013) A sound system of budgetary control can provide a firm foundation for good business management. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The number of women making it into the upper echelons of business management has increased tremendously in recent years. Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business (1990) I've worked in the industry but have never been a business owner. Houston Chronicle As a business owner, it's my responsibility to ensure those situations are few and far between. Times,Sunday Times They will be looking for the business, not the business owner. Times, Sunday Times If you find this hard to do, then ask someone else - a fellow business owner or your accountant - to help you. Times, Sunday Times But by doing that, the business owner sacrifices a large amount of control over the business's cash. ST It was a happy conjunction, and they also formed a solid business partnership. Times, Sunday Times This year the son obtained court orders granting him effective control of the business partnership and five family companies. Times,Sunday Times What starts as sharing ideas with a trusted friend could lead to a business partnership. The Sun And if the worst happens, the results for a business partnership can be as messy, painful and destructive as any divorce. Times, Sunday Times Any company, individual or business partnership, from dentists to farmers. Times, Sunday Times Some clubs are aimed at a particular business sector. Times, Sunday Times (2007) In the small and medium-sized business sector, there is no protection for those companies. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Opponents of the plan include the Government, most political parties and the business sector. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The fishing fleet is doing seriously good business selling lobsters to the French. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Within days it had been transformed into What, a small business selling homeware and furniture at low prices. Times, Sunday Times (2009) If your business is selling a dream, a little evidence can be persuasive. Times, Sunday Times (2010) His dad ran a business selling vintage cars and his mum worked booking models. Times, Sunday Times (2015) She set up her own business selling antique clothing and jewellery online and it is rapidly outgrowing her home base. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The business software company's name will be displayed only in league matches and the club are looking for a sponsor to pay about 3 million for advertising in cup matches. Times, Sunday Times The business software maker's stock price fell $6.31 to $21.91 after its outlook for its current quarter failed to live up to analysts' expectations. canada.com Last month the company launched a package of business software services, including a word-processor, spreadsheet and e-mail account, at $50 a year per user. Times, Sunday Times The shares of the business software group surged 23% to 416.9p last week after it said earnings would outstrip forecasts. Times, Sunday Times Hyperlinks may also be added to data files using most business software via the limited scripting and hyperlinking features built in. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its business thrives in periods of high market volatility and has been hit during the past two years as markets have become increasingly becalmed. Times, Sunday Times The grocery end of the business thrives, too, not only for fresh fruit and vegetables but also for plenty of own-brand jams and condiments. Times, Sunday Times Such reasoning will no doubt ensure that this multibillion pound business thrives. Times, Sunday Times That way your data can flow freely to make sure your business thrives. Times, Sunday Times I think business thrives best when politics stays out of it. Times, Sunday Times Failing to acknowledge his son, he resumes his life of perpetual business travel. The Times Literary Supplement Using a car for shopping trips and leisure activities creates more air pollution than commuting and business travel, a study has found. Times,Sunday Times A travel agent has to think about when people will start booking holidays and business travel again and how their habits might change. Times,Sunday Times Likewise, they may not be willing to let you use your older existing car for business travel if you choose to take the allowance instead. The Sun Business travel has been severely hit by the recession. Times, Sunday Times They are though using last-minute discounters rather than their own websites in order not to alienate their key business traveller market. Times, Sunday Times The needs of the regular business traveller are different from the needs of the holidaymaker who goes abroad once or twice a year. Times, Sunday Times Hoteliers are responding to the demand by updating equipment and creating dedicated business traveller services. Times, Sunday Times Condemned to be a luxury hotel for 'the business traveller who wants more', apparently. Times, Sunday Times You can experience it for yourself by simply making momentary eye contact with a business traveller in an airport. Times, Sunday Times Word blindness didn't stop him in his first business venture, a student magazine, when he was 16. Times, Sunday Times (2008) He hit upon the idea after finding himself homeless following a failed business venture. The Sun (2013) Life became a cycle of cosy nights in front of the TV and working hard to make their new business venture a success. The Sun (2016) The brand has won numerous awards and is now a million-dollar business venture. Times, Sunday Times (2008) We're going to need to use some of Pruitt's money to pay for this little business venture. THE DEVIL'S DOOR By close of business tonight, some seven tons will have hit the pot. Times, Sunday Times More than 10,000 logged on within an hour and more than 80,000 people had registered by the close of business. Times, Sunday Times By the close of business that day it had sold a dozen holidays. Times,Sunday Times The pace of fall increased toward the close of business as computer investment programmes gave out their 'sell' signals and panic spread through the investment community. Times, Sunday Times Transferring money electronically from one account to another, including the payment of bills, will have to be completed by close of business the next day. Times, Sunday Times If we can rise to the challenge in sport, we must do the same in the equally competitive business arena. The Sun Given this, one would think that countries in less golf-friendly climates would be deterred from entering this highly competitive business. Times, Sunday Times In addition, performers who don't strive to perfect every aspect of their technique don't get very far in this intensely competitive business. Times, Sunday Times It requires much more than a famous name to sustain a long career in such a brutal, competitive business. Times, Sunday Times A barbecue has always been a competitive business. Times, Sunday Times They were based on a misunderstanding of the way business was conducted. Times, Sunday Times (2013) A royal invite to conduct business aboard the world's most exclusive yacht was hard to resist. The Sun (2016) I conduct the business without interference and with full cooperation from you. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing (2006) Together with technologies such as connected devices and big data, it is offering new ways of conducting business. Times, Sunday Times (2016) So much football business is conducted in this haphazard fashion. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Its employees work across every big industry sector, including financial services, technology, media, consumer business, travel, telecommunications and tourism. Times, Sunday Times You talk about selling the business in the future and of investors perhaps being more attracted to a consumer business. Times, Sunday Times Some of the leading brands in the division performed even better than the consumer business as a whole. Times, Sunday Times Much of the borrowings, which have concerned analysts previously, will be transferred to the far more cash-generative consumer business. Times,Sunday Times The group was the first global consumer business to do so, and was followed by others. Times, Sunday Times The equal rights law does not seem to apply to the entertainment business. The Sun (2011) This is difficult enough to navigate for anyone in the electronics and entertainment business. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Generally in the entertainment business, you make friends and it's very transient. The Sun (2013) The survival of the family-owned business often depends on its ability to serve customers well. Christianity Today The fifth-generation family-owned business saw its 2011 profits soar 51% to 17m on record sales of 121.6m. Times, Sunday Times Many smaller communities operate on family-owned business economies. Christianity Today The family-owned business had run into financial trouble. Times, Sunday Times The family-owned business also turns cooking oil into biofuel. Times, Sunday Times Then he gets on with what he regards as the really important business. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Tourism also became an important business. Smithsonian Mag (2018) He kept insisting he had important family business. The Sun (2015) So doing so early can give the perception that you are a larger organisation and that helps demonstrate a legitimate business. Times, Sunday Times Those who operate grouse moors are keen to be seen by the world as decent people who conduct an entirely legitimate business. Times, Sunday Times He has insisted the payments were for legitimate business purposes. Times, Sunday Times They don't encourage visitors or advertise their legitimate business. Times, Sunday Times That was an important aspect of the reasonable protection of their legitimate business interest which the judge had ignored. Times, Sunday Times This could involve anything from international media interviews and conferences to meetings with local business or council leaders. Times, Sunday Times (2010) A local business contributes food to a church for distribution to the needy. Christianity Today (2000) The best approach from central government would be to give latitude to local business needs and employment conditions, within a supporting central framework. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The initiative offers small businesses the chance to compete for free regional press advertising and mentoring from local business leaders. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Economists said the bill for lost business and tourism will run to many millions of pounds. The Sun (2010) Small shopkeepers were fearful about losing business to the new retail giants, but most people welcomed them. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets (2004) Better to grin and bear it than risk losing future business. Times, Sunday Times (2019) Spamming is a lucrative business. Globe and Mail (2003) His most lucrative business was gasoline bootlegging, but his activities extended to union kickbacks, gambling, loan sharks and white-collar fraud. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It is a lucrative business for gangs. The Sun (2013) Many other theatres devoted similar periods of time to such lucrative business. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006) He went on to transform his small mail-order business into a global group. Times, Sunday Times The city has a special place in the sport's history, for it was here that a seed merchant (born 1858) set up a mail-order business. Times, Sunday Times Winning an award for the best mail-order business in our category was a real achievement. Times, Sunday Times The mail-order business was slow to take off; in 2001 it made an 87,000 loss on sales of 777,000. Times, Sunday Times Over the next five years, they quietly built up their mail-order business. Times, Sunday Times There are now three shops as well as the online business. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Its online business is also expanding rapidly with'significant growth' in its sales from mobile phones. Times, Sunday Times (2017) This was drawing in more shoppers while its online business was expanding. Times, Sunday Times (2015) We're going to continue to run and operate the business. Times, Sunday Times How quickly and in what way restrictions on social gathering are lifted makes it difficult to plan how to operate a business. Times,Sunday Times Local jurisdictions may also require special licenses and taxes just to operate a business. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Homeworkers do not own or operate the business they work for. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The business was established in 1910 and subsequently became a partnership among three inter-related families, who still own and operate the business to this day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Others suggest that some government officials are suspicious of private business in general and want to rena-tionalise the entire security industry. Times, Sunday Times Parliamentary rules do not forbid claiming expenses for flights from a constituency and then not voting, or even spending the time pursuing private business. Times, Sunday Times He plans to withdraw from the public spotlight and concentrate on his 'private business interests', he said. Times, Sunday Times Employers are often wanting to hire people with experience from other job sectors, such as private business, the military or government. ST This misses the point that the majority of publicsector contracts given to private business simply turn a public monopoly into a private one. Times, Sunday Times Another ran a profitable business in the office, using the house-journal to advertise and sell goods. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The company has been retreating from some less profitable business over the past couple of years but faces some difficult headwinds. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The venture turned into a thriving and profitable business. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It's a profitable business that expects to publish strong full-year results next month. Times, Sunday Times (2016) She was running her own publishing business after leaving her job as a lawyer in 2002. Times, Sunday Times Yesterday's trading statement delivered news on the educational and other book publishing business that was hardly riveting. Times, Sunday Times She went from selling newspaper space to starting up her own desktop publishing business. Times,Sunday Times The academy was set up to nurture talent and open the writing and publishing business to the reading public. Times, Sunday Times Instead of cosmetic palliative, the corporation should decide now on either charging a subscription for its online news or getting out of the publishing business. Times, Sunday Times Expanding a restaurant business is the terrible double-edged mezzaluna of high-end catering. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The lingering theory is credible because it is hard to imagine that the restaurant business in most cities and towns is anything but competitive. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995) It was a quoted restaurant business that owned fish shops and restaurants. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The flurry of deals in recent months, underlines the renewed confidence in the restaurant business. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The restaurant business is tough and unforgiving - good restaurants often go broke. Times, Sunday Times (2015) This is where any unsuspecting person can enter a minefield, as buying a horse can be a very risky business. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring (1989) The final message is clear: growing up is a risky business. Times, Sunday Times (2006) For the perception that trade is a risky business ensures that it still offers fat profit margins for financiers. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Hiding in the loo is a risky business. The Sun (2012) Peer-to-peer lending can be a risky business, but if you're determined to invest in this growing sector there are ways of lowering the risks. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Some small business owners approach hiring younger staff with undisguised dread, fearing the resource-draining task of managing a member of the ' snowflake' generation. Times, Sunday Times (2018) Plans to extend small business and transitional reliefs will be welcome by shopkeepers. Times, Sunday Times (2015) They may be unskilled workers or small business owners or wealthy aristocrats. Times, Sunday Times (2018) We see small business loyalty striving for the common good. Times, Sunday Times (2012) High street banks are about to be forced to redirect all the small business loan applications that they reject to a rival. Times, Sunday Times (2016) In 2010, she launched a successful business advising clients how to declutter their homes. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Football is a successful business because people are eternally bound to their clubs. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It's about building a club that is a successful business whose core competency is football. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Japanese investment flows have moved to Thailand as giant firms diversify industrial production and outsourcing, building on decades of successful business in a culturally hospitable environment. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Your belief in your own skills is suddenly stronger and work you do in your own time can grow into a successful business. The Sun (2013) The resulting demand led to the creation of a thriving business in eurodollar deposits. Times, Sunday Times (2015) She opens her own cafe selling cupcakes and, despite teething problems, soon has a thriving business. The Sun (2011) A former deckchair attendant has turned his love of the seaside furniture into a thriving business. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The man shrugged when asked about the family who only a week ago ran a thriving business. Times, Sunday Times (2009) She then joined an international shipping company and later her father's thriving business. Times, Sunday Times (2017) The ambitious project is a great example of the investment needed if Britain is to remain competitive in the tourism business. Times, Sunday Times (2011) For a tourism business, you want certainty. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Local tourism business owners think the campaign is premature. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Making that leap depends on the tricky business of exploiting its vast resources deep under the ocean and in tight geological formations on land. Times, Sunday Times (2010) This is when the day job turns into tricky business. Times, Sunday Times (2007) From surveillance to security, and the tricky business of getting a passport photo right. Times, Sunday Times (2007) They are unrelaxed and therefore unrelaxing, reek of self-denial and vibrate with unfinished business. Times, Sunday Times (2015) As time has passed, it feels as though there is unfinished business here. Times, Sunday Times (2017) We have unfinished business from last year and a great opportunity to erase those negative thoughts. The Sun (2008) At first he resisted, telling the scores of middlemen surrounding the deal that he had unfinished business with Chelsea. The Sun (2017) Before giving 2016 a hearty kick into the past tense, we have unfinished business. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They have spent the past month preparing a detailed plan to take control and keep it going as a viable business. Times, Sunday Times (2007) If farming is to make sense it has to be a viable business. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Additionally, the group owns a wholesale business comprising nine cash-and-carry warehouses, a food service business, and a fresh-foods division that supplies meat and poultry. Times, Sunday Times I sold shares in my video shop to invest in a greengrocer and a video wholesale business, neither of which did very well. The Sun The switch-over saw revenues in the group's wholesale business dive by 93 million to 937 million. Times, Sunday Times However, the company said that the uptick in retail sales would be 'more than offset' by the previously announced decline in its wholesale business. Times, Sunday Times While we're busy growing our wholesale business at home, we're also receiving product requests from importers and wholesalers in foreign countries. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 商业 Japanese: ビジネス |
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