Business
Business noun - A commercial or industrial activity or organization.
Usage example: most of the local businesses belong to the association
Firm
Firm noun - A commercial or industrial activity or organization.
Usage example: merged with another firm to become a major player in the brokerage business
Business is a synonym for firm in company topic. You can use "Business" instead a noun "Firm", if it concerns topics such as enterprise, thing, group, place. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| rival | rival business | rival firm |
| legitimate | legitimate business | legitimate firm |
| legal | legal business | legal firm |
| small | small business | small firm |
| Other adjectives: powerful, entire, successful, large, serious, evil, mercenary, main, respectable, criminal, important, private, new, major, independent, official, titular, international, local. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Because it is a sign from another business visible in Emerson's office, it is readable from inside the office instead of backwards as a sign for the PI firm would be from inside the building.
Source: Series / Pushing Daisies - Their scrap business was founded by Albert's father, which actually makes Albert the "Son" in the firm's title.
Source: Family Business - In A Civil Action the protagonist is told how much money his law firm needs to stay in business.
Source: On the Money
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