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(activity) noun
adsiduitas, alacrity, application, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, bustle, busyness, constancy, determination, devotedness, devotion, diligence, diligentia, drive, dynamism, eagerness, earnestness, effort, employment, endeavor, endurance, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, exertion, hard work, indefatigability, industria, intentness, labor, laboriousness, occupation, perseverance, persistence, pursuance, pursuit, sedulity, sedulousness, steadfastness, stir, strenuousness, tenacity, toil, vigor, vim, work, zeal, zealousness
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(business) noun
enterprise, establishment, manufacture, mercantile business, metier, production, profession, pursuit, trade, undertaking, work
associated concepts: engage in industry, industrywide contract
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index
building (business of assembling), business (commerce), business (commercial enterprise), calling, commerce, corporation, effort, employment, enterprise (economic organization), firm, labor (exertion), occupation (vocation), work (effort), work (employment)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.Commercial activity conducted for profit; economic activity that uses a great deal of labor, capital, and raw materials for the manufacture of goods.adj.industrial
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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