BUSINESS CONCERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does business concern mean? 

• BUSINESS CONCERN (noun)
  The noun BUSINESS CONCERN has 1 sense:

1. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

  Familiarity information: BUSINESS CONCERN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESS CONCERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern

Context example:

a racially integrated business concern

Hypernyms ("business concern" is a kind of...):

enterprise (an organization created for business ventures)

Meronyms (members of "business concern"):

division (an administrative unit in government or business)

Domain category:

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain member category:

shipping room (a room where goods are packaged and shipped)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "business concern"):

agency (a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties)

brokerage (the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties)

carrier; common carrier (a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages)

chain ((business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership)

business firm; firm; house (the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments)

dealership; franchise (a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area)

maker; manufacturer; manufacturing business (a business engaged in manufacturing some product)

partnership (the members of a business venture created by contract)

processor (a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market)

shipbuilder (a business that builds and repairs ships)

underperformer (a business that is less successful than expected)