Business vs. Enterprise — What's the Difference?

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). Simply put, it is "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit."Having a business name does not separate the business entity from the owner, which means that the owner of the business is responsible and liable for debts incurred by the business.

A project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one

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

A business or company

The amount or volume of this activity

An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk.

The variety of this activity in which a person is engaged

A business organization.

A specific occupation or pursuit

Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit

A commercial enterprise or establishment

Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative

Commercial dealings; patronage

A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

One's rightful or proper concern or interest

An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.

Something involving one personally

(uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.

Serious work or endeavor

(uncountable) Active participation in projects. en

An affair or matter

(intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

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

(transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

(Informal) Strong verbal criticism; scolding

(transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

(Informal) Urination or defecation

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.

(Obsolete) The condition of being busy.

Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

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

To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness);

(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

An organization created for business ventures;

(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

Readiness to embark on bold new ventures

(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;