BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does business relationship mean? 

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

1. a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

account; business relationship

Context example:

he asked to see the executive who handled his account

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

relationship (a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries)

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

brokerage account (a fund that a customer has entrusted to a securities brokerage)

bank account (a fund that a customer has entrusted to a bank and from which the customer can make withdrawals)

short account (a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own))

 Context examples 

If it’s a business relationship that is keeping you up at night, cut the ties sooner rather than later.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The partner in question may pertain to your romantic partner or a partner at work with whom you have a serious one-on-one business relationship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)