Government vs. Business — What's the Difference?

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary.

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.

The group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office

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

The relation between a governed and a governing word.

The amount or volume of this activity

The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit.

The variety of this activity in which a person is engaged

The office, function, or authority of a governing individual or body.

A specific occupation or pursuit

Exercise of authority in a political unit; rule.

A commercial enterprise or establishment

The agency or apparatus through which a governing individual or body functions and exercises authority.

Commercial dealings; patronage

The ruling political party or coalition of political parties in a parliamentary system.

One's rightful or proper concern or interest

The cabinet in a parliamentary system.

Something involving one personally

The persons who make up a governing body.

Serious work or endeavor

A system or policy by which a political unit is governed.

An affair or matter

Administration or management of an organization, business, or institution.

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

Political science.

(Informal) Strong verbal criticism; scolding

(Grammar) The influence of a word over the morphological inflection of another word in a phrase or sentence.

(Informal) Urination or defecation

The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.

(Obsolete) The condition of being busy.

The relationship between a word and its dependents.

(countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.

The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.

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

(uncountable) The management or control of a system.

(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.

The tenure of a chief of state.

(uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

(uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.

The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.

(uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.

The right or power of governing; authority.

(uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.

The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.

(countable) A particular situation or activity.

The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.

(countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.

Management of the limbs or body.

(uncountable) Something involving one personally.

The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.

The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit;

Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.

(government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed;

(acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.

The act of governing; exercising authority;

The collective noun for a group of ferrets.

The study of government of states and other political units

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;