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Business

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

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Accountancy 76% connected

The art or employment of an accountant.

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Accounting 76% connected

of Account

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Advertising 76% connected

of Advertise

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Agency 76% connected

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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Agriculture 76% connected

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; fa…

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Appointment 76% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

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Berth 76% connected

Convenient sea room.

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Brokerage 76% connected

The business or employment of a broker.

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Building 76% connected

of Build

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Butchering 76% connected

of Butcher

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Butchery 76% connected

The business of a butcher.

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Calling 76% connected

of Call

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Career 76% connected

A race course: the ground run over.

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Carrier 76% connected

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

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Catering 76% connected

of Cater

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Chain 76% connected

A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornam…

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Confectionery 76% connected

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

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Construction 76% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Craft 76% connected

Strength; might; secret power.

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Employment 76% connected

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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Farming 76% connected

of Farm

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Field 76% connected

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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Finance 76% connected

The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available mo…

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Firm 76% connected

Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

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Fishing 76% connected

of Fish

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Franchise 76% connected

Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

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Game 76% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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House 76% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Industry 76% connected

Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness;…

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Land 76% connected

Urine. See Lant.

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Maker 76% connected

One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.

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Manufacture 76% connected

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

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Manufacturer 76% connected

One who manufactures.

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Office 76% connected

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the rel…

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Partnership 76% connected

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

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Patronage 76% connected

Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an aut…

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Photography 76% connected

The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Printing 76% connected

of Print

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Profession 76% connected

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

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Publication 76% connected

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulg…

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Publishing 76% connected

of Publish

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Shipbuilder 76% connected

A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

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Shipping 76% connected

of Ship

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Situation 76% connected

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

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Sport 76% connected

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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Storage 76% connected

The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Transport 76% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Transportation 76% connected

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

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Treadmill 76% connected

A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison d…

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Venture 76% connected

An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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Vocation 76% connected

A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Acting 76% connected

of Act

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Aim 76% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Commerce 76% connected

The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; exten…

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Commercialism 76% connected

The commercial spirit or method.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Enterprise 76% connected

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…

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Headache 76% connected

Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Objective 76% connected

Of or pertaining to an object.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Performing 76% connected

of Perform

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Playing 76% connected

of Play

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Sector 76% connected

A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.

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Target 76% connected

A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

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Vexation 76% connected

The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

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Worry 76% connected

To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Division 70% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Market 70% connected

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and…

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Byplay 92% connected

Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

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Clientele 92% connected

The condition or position of a client; clientship

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Concern 92% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Job 92% connected

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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Line 92% connected

Flax; linen.

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Occupation 92% connected

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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Patronage 92% connected

Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an aut…

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