Business

1. n. Care; anxiety; diligence.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.
4. n. Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
5. n. That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
6. n. Affair; concern; matter; — used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
7. n. The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.