business vs home

business

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

  • Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice. 

  • Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business. 

noun
  • One's dealings; patronage. 

  • A person's occupation, work, or trade. 

  • The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal. 

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

  • A particular situation or activity. 

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

  • Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action. 

  • The volume or amount of commercial trade. 

  • The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management. 

  • The collective noun for a group of ferrets. 

  • Private commercial interests taken collectively. 

  • Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter. 

  • matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral) 

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

  • A specific commercial enterprise or establishment. 

  • Disruptive shenanigans. 

  • Something involving one personally. 

  • Commercial, industrial, or professional activity. 

home

adj
  • Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign 

  • Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). 

adv
  • To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location 

  • To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly. 

  • At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home 

  • into the goal 

  • To the home page 

  • To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length 

  • To one's place of birth 

  • into the right, proper or stowed position 

noun
  • The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal. 

  • Home plate. 

  • The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player. 

  • The landing page of a website; the site's homepage. 

  • One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family. 

  • The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian. 

  • A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there. 

  • The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve. 

  • The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. 

  • One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt. 

  • A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum. 

  • The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat. 

  • The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. 

verb
  • To seek or aim for something. 

  • To return to its owner. 

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