PLACE OF BUSINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does place of business mean? 

• PLACE OF BUSINESS (noun)
  The noun PLACE OF BUSINESS has 1 sense:

1. an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLACE OF BUSINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

business establishment; place of business

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

establishment (a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence)

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

gambling den; gambling hell; gambling house; gaming house (a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business))

health club; health spa; spa (a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness)

casino-hotel; hotel-casino (a business establishment that combines a casino and a hotel)

massage parlor (a business establishment that offers therapeutic massage)

mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet (a place of business for retailing goods)

business office; office (place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed)

spot (a business establishment for entertainment)

 Context examples 

Where is your father’s place of business?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A person, partnership, corporation, or association that has a place of business or/and residence in the United States and is physically present in United States, whom a foreign facility designates as its agent.

(Foreign Facility's United States Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

There would probably be an interval, he explained, in which he should content himself with the upper part of a house, over some respectable place of business—say in Piccadilly,—which would be a cheerful situation for Mrs. Micawber; and where, by throwing out a bow-window, or carrying up the roof another story, or making some little alteration of that sort, they might live, comfortably and reputably, for a few years.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I dined regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)