The meaning of BUSINESS is a usually commercial or mercantile activity engaged in as a means of livelihood : trade, line. How to use business in a sentence.
Lancaster and Columbia have plenty of history apart from the Civil War, of course. For example, Lancaster was home to F. W. Woolworth's first successful 5&10 and Milton S. Hershey's first successful candy business. —Lancaster New Era, 2 July 1996