Business vs. Busyness

The activity of buying and selling commodities, products, or services

Engaged in activity, as work; occupied.

The amount or volume of this activity

Characterized by or sustaining much activity

The variety of this activity in which a person is engaged

Being a busybody; meddlesome; prying.

A specific occupation or pursuit

Being in use, as a telephone line.

A commercial enterprise or establishment

Cluttered with detail to the point of being distracting

Commercial dealings; patronage

To make busy; occupy

One's rightful or proper concern or interest

The state of being busy.

Something involving one personally

The state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; as, they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers.

Serious work or endeavor

The state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity;

An affair or matter

An incidental action performed by an actor on the stage to fill a pause between lines or to provide interesting detail.

(Informal) Strong verbal criticism; scolding

(Informal) Urination or defecation

(Obsolete) The condition of being busy.

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

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

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

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

(countable) A particular situation or activity.

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

(uncountable) Something involving one personally.

Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

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

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

The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

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

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

(slang) Disruptive shenanigans.

(Australian Aboriginal) matters (e.g sorry business = a funeral)

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Care; anxiety; diligence.

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

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

Business concerns collectively;

The volume of business activity;

A rightful concern or responsibility;

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

An immediate objective;

Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect;

Customers collectively;