Like nobody's business

Definition

business /'bÇznǝs/ n ၁။ [U] (က) အေရာင္းအဝယ္။ လုပ္ငန္း။ ကူးသန္းေရာင္းဝယ္ေရး။ ကုန္သြယ္ေရး။ We don't do (much) business with foreign companies. ❍ He's in (ie works in ) the oil business. ❍ She has set up in business as a book-seller. ❍ They left their jobs to go into business on their own. ❍ a business trip ❍ a business lunch ❍ business sense (ie knowledge of or skill at commercial procedures). (ခ) ယင္း လုပ္ငန္းေဆာင္တာ။ Business is always brisk before Christmas. ၂။ [C] စီးပြားေရးအဖြဲ႕ အစည္း။ ကုမၸဏီ။ ဆိုင္။ have/own one's own business ❍ She runs a thriving grocery business. ❍ Many small businesses have gone bankrupt recently. ၃။ [C, U] သမား႐ိုးက် အလုပ္အကိုင္။ လုပ္ငန္း။ He tries not to let (his) business interfere with his home life. ၄။ [U] တာဝန္။ ဝတၱရား။ ကိစၥ။ အလုပ္။ It is the business of the police to protect the community. ❍ I shall make it my business to find out who is responsible. ❍ My private life is none of your business/is no business of yours. ၅။ [U] (ေျဖရွင္းစရာ၊ ေဆြးေႏြးစရာ) အေရးႀကီးကိစၥ။ The main business of this meeting is our wages claim. ❍ Unless there is any other business, we can end the meeting. ၆။ [sing] အေၾကာင္းအရာ။ အေရးအရာ။ အျဖစ္ အပ်က္။ an odd/a strange/a disturbing business ❍ It's always such a business finding somewhere to park. ❍ I'm sick of the whole business. ❍ That plane crash was an awful business. ❍ What's this business I hear about you losing your job? ၇။ [U] ( techn ) ဇာတ္စင္ေပၚ၌ သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ရာတြင္ ဇာတ္စကားကို ေပၚလြင္ေစရန္ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ လက္ဟန္၊ ေျခဟန္၊ မ်က္ႏွာေပး။ See also SHOW BUSINESS ❏ business as usual [ IDM ] ( catchphrase ) (အခက္အခဲ အခ်ဳိ႕ရိွေသာ္လည္း) လုပ္ငန္းကို ပံုမွန္အတိုင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေန ပါသည္။ Notice to customers: business as usual during redecoration work. ❏ business card n လုပ္ငန္းလိပ္စာကတ္ျပား။ ❏ the business end n [sing] ~ (of sth) ( Brit infml ) ကိရိယာ၊ လက္နက္တစ္ခုတြင္ ပဓာန အစိတ္အပိုင္း။ Never hold a gun by the business end. ❏ business is business [ IDM ] ( catchphrase ) အလုပ္က အလုပ္ပဲ။ ❏ business park n အလုပ္႐ံုးခန္းမ်ား၊ စက္႐ံုအလုပ္႐ံု မ်ားစသည္အတြက္ သီးသန္႔နယ္ေျမ။ ❏ business studies n [U] ေဘာဂေဗဒႏွင့္ စီမံခန္႔ခြဲမႈ ပညာ။ ❏ get down to business [ IDM ] အလုပ္ကိစၥကို စတင္သည္။ OK, now we're all here, let's get down to business. ❏ go about one's business [ IDM ] ေန႔စဥ္ လုပ္ေနက် ကိစၥ တို႔ျဖင့္ အလုပ္႐ႈပ္ေနသည္။ streets filled with people going about their daily business. ❏ go out of business [ IDM ] အေႂကြးမဆပ္ႏိုင္ဘဲ လုပ္ငန္းပါ ျပဳတ္သြားသည္။ ❏ have no business to do sth/doing sth [ IDM ] (ျပဳရန္) ဘာမွ်အေၾကာင္းမရိွ၊ အခြင့္မရိွ။ You've no business to be here—this is private property. ❏ in the business of sth/doing sth [ IDM ] ဝင္ပါသည္။ ျပဳရန္ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရိွသည္။ I'm not in the business of telling other people how to run their lives. ❏ like nobody's business [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြန္၊ တအား။ My head hurts like nobody's business. ❏ on business [ IDM ] အလုပ္ျဖင့္။ I'll be away on business next week.

Examples

1. Representatives from business and politics
2. [do business with someone] : I found them very easy to do business with.
3. [go into business] : It was a mistake to go into business with my brother.
4. Our latest business venture
5. The business community (=all the people who work in business)
6. A business associate/partner
7. The business section of the Sunday paper
8. We’re hoping that business will improve this year.
9. Cheap imports are damaging our business.
10. Business was booming (=doing very well).
11. A little controversy will be good for business.
12. They’re trying to attract business by cutting prices.
13. A potential source of new business
14. Companies risk losing business if they don’t accept the Euro.
15. What business are you in?
16. [the music/fashion/advertising etc business] : I have a few contacts in the music business.
17. Are you here for business or pleasure?
18. A business lunch/trip/meeting
19. [on business] : Jonathan was away on business.
20. A small family business
21. Matthew’s little shop has turned into a thriving business.
22. Many small businesses fold (=fail) in their first year.
23. [run a business] : Sheryl’s parents run a small clothing business.
24. [start your own business] : After leaving school
25. Bob started his own computer business.
26. Is there any other business to discuss?
27. [unfinished business] : We’ve still got some unfinished business to settle.
28. [the business of (doing) something] : Nancy had left the business of looking after the dog to her brother.
29. It’s my business who I go out with.
30. This business about housework has to be resolved.
31. I’m fed up with the whole business.
32. Ever since that business with her boyfriend
33. Becky’s been really depressed.
34. A cat is doing its business in a litter box.