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BIZ
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Dictionary entry overview: What does biz mean?
• BIZ (noun)
The noun BIZ has 1 sense:
1. your occupation or line of work
Familiarity information: BIZ used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Your occupation or line of work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
biz; game
Context example:
she's in show biz
Hypernyms ("biz" is a kind of...):
business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples
But he knew the biz.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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