单词 | to give business to |
释义 | > as lemmasto give business to ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > do one's utmost forcec1340 to give business to1340 to set (up) one's rest1589 to strain every nerve1837 to shoot one's wad1914 1340To do business [see sense 2]. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 63 Yit woll I fonde To wryte and do my bisinesse. 1422 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 51 They will do her besynesse to fulfyll goddes will. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 166 Þei werren full wisely & allweys don here besynes to destroyen hire enemyes. ?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 373 He wol þat þai ȝeue bissynes to þe londe & not to þe lawe. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xv. ix. 214 In Greece was nothing more noble..then that Citye [sc. Athens], while it gaue businesse to study of..wisdome. < as lemmas |
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