Business and Purpose

Business

Business noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.

Usage example: plants going about the business of photosynthesis provide the Earth with a renewable source of oxygen

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Purpose and business are semantically related In some cases you can use "Purpose" instead a noun "Business".

Purpose noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.

Usage example: still trying to discover her purpose in life

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Business and purpose are semantically related in duty topic. Sometimes you can use "Business" instead a noun "Purpose".

good	good business	good purpose
normal	normal business	normal purpose
usual	usual business	usual purpose
single	single business	single purpose
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, evil, little, dark, main, important, secret, new, major, official, different.

Whilst "the meaning, nature, and purpose of existence and morality" is serious business, obviously some aspects of it are less serious than others.

Source: Serious Business / Real Life
He is killed in the first few chapters of the seventh book, for the sole purpose of showing how serious business everything now is, embodying this trope.

Source: The Worf Effect
The psychotic Sharaz Jek plunges the Androzani system into a costly war for the sole purpose of getting revenge on the business partner who betrayed and permanently disfigured him.

Source: Cycle of Revenge

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