Business vs. Profession

Businessnoun

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

Businessnoun

(countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.

Businessnoun

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

Businessnoun

(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

Businessnoun

(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

Businessnoun

(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

Businessnoun

(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

Businessnoun

(countable) A particular situation or activity.

Businessnoun

(countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.

Businessnoun

(uncountable) Something involving one personally.

Businessnoun

Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

Businessnoun

Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

Businessnoun

(acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.

Businessnoun

The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

Businessnoun

Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")

Businessnoun

Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.

Businessadjective

Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or other professional purposes.

Businessadjective

Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.

Businessadjective

Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

Businessnoun

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

Businessnoun

Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.

Businessnoun

Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

Businessnoun

That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.

Businessnoun

Affair; concern; matter; - used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.

Businessnoun

The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

Businessnoun

Care; anxiety; diligence.

Businessnoun

a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it;

Businessnoun

the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects;

Businessnoun

business concerns collectively;

Businessnoun

the volume of business activity;

Businessnoun

a rightful concern or responsibility;

Businessnoun

the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money;

Businessnoun

an immediate objective;

Businessnoun

incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect;

Businessnoun

customers collectively;

Business

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). Simply put, it is Having a business name does not separate the business entity from the owner, which means that the owner of the business is responsible and liable for debts incurred by the business.

Professionnoun

A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.

Professionnoun

A declaration of belief, faith or of one's opinion.

Professionnoun

An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.

Professionnoun

The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.

Professionnoun

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

Professionnoun

That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.

Professionnoun

That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.

Professionnoun

The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.

Professionnoun

The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.

Professionnoun

the body of people in a learned occupation;

Professionnoun

an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

Professionnoun

an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion;

Professionnoun

affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith;

Profession

A profession is an occupation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain. Medieval and early modern tradition recognized only three professions: divinity, medicine, and law, which were called the learned professions.