单词 | biz |
释义 | bizn. colloquial (originally U.S.). = business n.See also showbiz n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] wikec1000 workOE wikenc1175 misterc1225 curec1300 officec1330 ward1338 duty1375 parta1382 businessc1400 commissionc1450 besoigne1474 roomth?1504 function1533 exercitation1737 pidgin1807 job1841 biz1862 1862 C. F. Browne Artemus Ward his Bk. 222 I must forth to my Biz. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 35 No. IV. made it his ‘biz’ to fall upon the old hands. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds iii. 46 He had what he called a ‘big biz’ at each successive terminus town. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 57/1 ‘Good biz’ is profitable business. 1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 813/1 I'll go Down to the sale, if I can leave my biz. 1909 P. G. Wodehouse Mike xx. 115 As the poet has it, ‘Pleasure is pleasure, and biz is biz, and kep' in a sepyrit jug.’ 1922 Weekly Disp. 19 Nov. 9 ‘There is to be nothing of the limelight order in my conduct’... ‘I am out for real sober “biz”.’ a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) iii. 36 The cleverest plagiarist in the biz. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1862 |
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