business enterprise

Other forms: business enterprises

Definitions of business enterprise

1. noun

   the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
   synonyms: business, commercial enterprise

   types:

   tourism, touristry

   the business of providing services to tourists

   fishing

   the occupation of catching fish for a living

   butchering, butchery

   the business of a butcher

   storage

   the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials

   industry, manufacture

   the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

   field, field of operation, line of business

   a particular kind of commercial enterprise

   employee-owned business, employee-owned enterprise

   a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it

   finance

   the commercial activity of providing funds and capital

   discount business

   the business of selling merchandise at a discount

   real-estate business

   the business of selling real estate

   advertising, publicizing

   the business of drawing public attention to goods and services

   publication, publishing

   the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution

   printing

   the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution

   packaging

   the business of packing

   agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm

   a large-scale farming enterprise

   building, construction

   the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones

   shipping, transport, transportation

   the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

   venture

   a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

   ecotourism

   tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature

   cold storage

   refrigerated storage for preservation

   stowage, stowing

   the act of packing or storing away

   tankage

   the act of storing in tanks

   cottage industry

   small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment

   production

   (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale

   industrial enterprise, industrialisation, industrialization

   the development of industry on an extensive scale

   corporate finance

   the financial activities of corporation

   financing, funding

   the act of financing

   high finance

   large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical)

   investing, investment

   the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit

   floatation, flotation

   financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares

   banking

   transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.

   hard sell

   forceful and insistent advertising

   soft sell

   suggestive or persuasive advertising

   circularisation, circularization

   circulating printed notices as a means of advertising

   desktop publishing

   (computer science) the use of microcomputers with graphics capacity to produce printed materials

   republication, republishing

   the act of publishing again

   contribution

   a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings, as an article or story

   serialisation, serialization

   publication in serial form

   gravure

   the act of intaglio printing

   issue, publication

   the act of issuing printed materials

   meat packing, meat-packing business, meatpacking

   wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)

   unitisation, unitization

   the act of packaging cargo into unit loads

   jerry-building

   construction of inferior buildings for a quick profit

   air transport, air transportation

   transportation by air

   navigation

   ship traffic

   hauling, truckage, trucking

   the activity of transporting goods by truck

   freight, freightage

   transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

   express, expressage

   rapid transport of goods

   ferry, ferrying

   transport by boat or aircraft

   type of:

   commerce, commercialism, mercantilism

   transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)