Collocations withbusiness
These are words often used in combination withbusiness.
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ancillary business
We want to be allowed to distinguish between an ancillary business and the business of shipping.
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business associate
A business associate and close friend of my aunt was recently diagnosed with a massive brain tumor.
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business dealings
The family's business dealings often involved huge investments, which sometimes required loans taken off mortgages on family property.
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business incubator
The research park provides a business incubator for spin-offs of universities and space for companies active in research and development.
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business partner
The typical conventional grower in the sample had a business partner sharing in management decisions, and the typical reduced-chemical grower in the sample had received an associate's degree.
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catering business
It is no good treating the catering business lightly merely because someone else is paying the losses.
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consulting business
I have no objection to the assembly consulting business.
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contracting business
The private electrical contracting business has continued to expand in parallel with the general development of nationalisation.
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day-to-day business
There are sudden splashes of colour amid day-to-day business, but references to music or liturgy are frustratingly few and far between.
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diversified business
The cost of business rates can make or break diversified business.
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failing business
There is also the case of the ailing or failing business.
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family-owned business
It may be a family-owned business, where relations between management and employees are excellent.
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family-run business
I recently visited a well-established, family-run business in my constituency and went behind the scenes to see how everything was baked fresh on the premises.
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fledgling business
His fledgling business survived the crash of 1929.
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flourishing business
What is so wrong about a flourishing business and commercial sector?
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for-profit business
Still, whatever the mission, a goal of any for-profit business firm is the economic flourishing of its shareholders, or of its primary stakeholders.
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high-tech business
Indeed, anyone who has visited a steel plant recently will know that steel production is a high-tech business, using leading-edge technology.
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home-based business
This is usually separate to a house, being used as a dedicated office space by a professional homeworker or by a home-based business.
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legitimate business
They attempt to whitewash themselves by moving into legitimate business sectors.
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local business
Involves regulation of private sector; related to local business, entertainment, temperance, streetcar regulations, or morality.
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lucrative business
In this transition from character to commodity, comics became partially removed from an aesthetic appreciation of the art to a lucrative business asset.
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medium-size business
The question is how we can improve working conditions for small and medium-size businesses.
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medium-sized business
All the interest groups, with the unsurprising exceptions of the truckers' association and the trade association of small and medium-sized business firms, supported it too.
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printing business
He was running a big printing business, and when prohibition first came in he said it was the very finest thing they could possibly have.
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profit-making business
This collectivity may be a social club, a voluntary association, a religious group, a government agency, or a profit-making business enterprise.
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regulated business
Rather than fostering corporatist cooperation between business and government, the wage-and-hour bill overtly regulated business trade activities.
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reputable business
In the medical and more reputable business community, anti-aging medicine means early detection, prevention, and reversal of age-related diseases.
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retail business
One such organization is a quick print shop: a retail business that provides xerographic copying and printing (as opposed to offset printing).
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risky business
Forecasting is a risky business, and the prediction of long-term health care events is fraught with difficulties (2;6;9).
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shady business
It may be thought that if there is some shady business going on the police will not know because they will not be sufficiently expert.
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shipping business
It made a vast difference in the whole of our shipping business.
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shrewd business
Who were the shrewd business men who brought this about?
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small-scale business
Shrimp aquaculture in the developing world is a small-scale business.
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sordid business
What has been revealed is a sordid business.
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successful business
The oldest and most successful business was, without doubt, the launderette.
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thriving business
A thriving business on the other hand can have positive repercussions on the surroundings, and foster social sustainability.
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tricky business
Such a view of freedom is not fashionable, and defending it adequately is a tricky business.
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trucking business
His father owned a trucking business, but unlike his siblings, he wished to become a "tabacalero", a tobacconist.
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urgent business
I submit that in debating this subject we would not be displacing any other urgent business.
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viable business
The issue is whether such policies constitute viable business practices and are perceived as fair by users.
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wholesale business
They also financed the marketing of exportable goods by controlling the storage, transport and wholesale business.
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