flourishing business

collocation in English

meaningsofflourishingandbusiness

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flourishing
adjective
uk
/ˈflʌr.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/us
/ˈflɝː.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/
growing or ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition offlourishingandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What is so wrong about aflourishingbusinessand commercial sector?
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Five years ago we ran aflourishingbusinesswith 6 lorries and 8 staff.
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In no case should aflourishingbusinessshed staff, let alone make employees redundant.
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It is necessary to revive ourselves by aflourishingbusinessof art in our lives.
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The manufacturers of cones used on motorways must have a veryflourishingbusiness.
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It employed a considerable number of men—a couple of dozen or more—and it was aflourishingbusiness.
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They had the good sense to take on one of the dock managers to help and guide them, and it is now aflourishingbusiness.
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If we put our own house in order we can go into it and offer them a share in the mostflourishingbusinessin the whole world.
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He has gone on from strength to strength, and he is now the proprietor of a veryflourishingbusiness employing a considerable number of men and women.
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Aflourishingbusinessand investments in house property brought the brothers a large fortune, of which they made a munificent use.
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The rice industry is aflourishingbusinessin this area.
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This was aflourishingbusinessuntil the petroleum industry made it obsolete.
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This small place has seen some golden times when it hadflourishingbusinessby some entrepreneurs.
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Taxi drivers hated the introduction of the trams because they competed with the taxis'flourishingbusiness.
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After school, he went to work running his father's mill, made itflourishingbusiness.
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They also stay a few days with a middle-class woman who grows flowers along with her vegetables and has aflourishingbusinessselling high-quality products to rich people.
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Responsible for theflourishingbusinessof people smuggling are a combination of interacting factors, from weak legislation and lax border controls to corrupt officials and the power of organized crime.
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I make this protest against imposing a duty which will hamper one of the really flourishing businesses of the country.
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Many flourishing businesses have seen their profits disappear.
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