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mean business

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  • be serious
  • be determined
  • be resolute
  • be set on something

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commercial, industrial, or professional activity in general

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the commercial transactions of customers with a supplier

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something that concerns or involves one personally

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something to be done, considered, or dealt with

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the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects

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a rightful concern or responsibility

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an immediate objective

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customers collectively

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incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect

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Business is business, and should be done in a business way.
My strict integrity, economy, and rigorous business habits, here again came into play.
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Greatly encouraged, they prepared a little circular which was the first advertisement of the telephone business.
Holmes, who was running a burglar-alarm business in Boston, proposed that a few telephones be linked to his wires.
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But what I have to do with, as a partner in our firm, is the qualities you've shown as a man o' business.
Guest and myself to make some acknowledgment of the service you've been to us; and, backed by your general conduct and business ability, it has made us determine on giving you a share in the business,--a share which we shall be glad to increase as the years go on.
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Our relations were business relations, but confidential.
These are mere business relations, miss; there is no friendship in them, no particular interest, nothing like sentiment.
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The share of his partners in the business was of the most trifling nature.
With his position in the City, he had only to go to the famous money-lending and discounting house of Bulpit Brothers--reported to "turn over" millions in their business every year--and to supply himself at once with the necessary funds.
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Coulson, having waved his hand to a few acquaintances and chaffed the Spanish dancing girls in their own language,--not a little to his companion's astonishment,--at last turned to business.
Now, put it in a business form, what can I do for you?
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He tore the veils of illusion from the business game, and saw its nakedness.
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What his business was he did not say; but after his engagement to Winnie he took the trouble to get up before noon, and descending the basement stairs, make himself pleasant to Winnie's mother in the breakfast- room downstairs where she had her motionless being.
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You are quite sure,' said Barnacle junior, calling after him when he got to the door, unwilling wholly to relinquish the bright business idea he had conceived; 'that it's nothing about Tonnage?
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