Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
1. Conceptional Volition

625. Business.

   NOUN:BUSINESS, occupation, employment, undertaking; pursuit [See Pursuit]; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.
  TASK, matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum (pl. agenda), work, job, chore [U. S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty [See Duty].
  exercise; work (action) [See Action]; avocation, hobby; press of business (activity) [See Activity].
  FUNCTION, part, rôle, cue; province, lookout [colloq.], department, capacity, sphere, orb [now rare], field, line; walk, – of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.
  OFFICE, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, billet, appointment, employ [rare], service (servitude) [See Subjection]; engagement; undertaking [See Undertaking].
  VOCATION, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery [obs.], handicraft; trade (commerce) [See Barter].
   VERB:OCCUPY ONESELF WITH; pass -, employ -, spend- one’s time in; employ oneself -in, – upon; concern oneself with; make it one’s business &c. n.; undertake [See Undertaking]; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one’s hand to; have to do with (do) [See Action].
  be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on; have one’s hands in, have in hand; have on one’s -hands, – shoulders; bear the burden; have one’s hands full (activity) [See Activity].
  PLY ONE’S TASK, ply one’s trade; drive a trade; carry on -, do -, transact- -business, – a trade &c. n.; keep a shop; labor in one’s vocation; pursue the even tenor of one’s way; attend to business, attend to one’s work.
  OFFICIATE, serve, act; act one’s part, play one’s part; do duty; serve -, discharge -, perform- the -office, – duties, – functions- of; hold -, fill- -an office, – a place, – a situation; hold a portfolio.
  BE IN THE HANDS OF, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one’s hands.
   ADJECTIVE:BUSINESSLIKE; workaday; professional, vocational; official, functional; humming, busy (actively employed) [See Activity].
  IN HAND, on hand; on or in one’s hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.
   ADVERB:IN THE COURSE OF BUSINESS, all in the day’s work; professionally &c. adj.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. A business with an income at its heels.—Cowper
2. Amoto quæramus seria ludo.—Horace
3. Par negotiis neque supra.—Tacitus
4. Why not have a bit of romance in business when it costs nothing?—Shaw