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business
a commercial enterprise trading in goods or services which incurs expenditure, earns income and trades, hopefully, at a profit.
business directory
lists the names of all businesses operating in a particular area as an aid to consumers. It is now customary to list professional practices in the same directory.
business names
must be registered with a statutory bureau which controls the use of all business names and with the professional registering authority. Both of these organizations are tightly selective of the names that can be used. In the veterinary profession they are literally practice names.
business nuisance
anything done which interferes with the reasonable use of a person's business premises, e.g. traffic blocking access, noise or smell offensive to customers or workers, health risks because of poor sanitation or hygiene.
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But housing advocates are questioning whether it is appropriate for a for-profit developer to make charity mandatory--particularly since it adds to the overall cost of a home and the developer operates the charity.
Lennar forces $250 donation on homebuyers by Berry, Kate / Los Angeles Business Journal
MOST DISCUSSIONS ON the rise of for-profit colleges begin and end with an arbitrary moral judgment that there's something inherently wrong with for-profit colleges, or an unfounded assertion that these institutions offer inferior academic programs.
Improving our discourse on for-profit colleges: these schools are ... by Harpool, David / University Business
The comparisons were adjusted to account for the financial resources available and higher educational levels of staff in the non-profits; the for-profit programs still came out poor in quality.
Quality is higher in non-profit centres than commercial, study reports by Community Action
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