DO BUSINESS

Barter

Trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with, do business with; open an account with, keep an account with.

Business

Drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business; Noun: keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.

Crosswords: DO BUSINESS

Books

• Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries (reference)

• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

I want to open an account and do business like my Uncle. Credit: Library of Congress.

You can't do business with Hitler. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Clause 1: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In this century, people do business, they gamble at the Bourse, they make money, and they are disagreeable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Companies must register with local tax authorities where they do business. (references)

The MOD publishes (in English) "How to do business with the Norwegian Armed Forces". (references)

They prefer to do business with manufacturers or direct representatives, rather than with distributors. (references)

Civil Liberties

Germany

The private sector on occasion has required foreign firms that wish to do business in the country to declare any affiliation that they or their employees may have with Scientology. (references)

Economic History

Finland

Finns know how to do business in Russia and the Baltic States. (references)

Sweden

Finally, Sweden is a great place for Americans to do business. (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

The net effect of these changes is that Korea is now an easier place to do business than in the past. (references)

SWITZERLAND

Foreign insurers wishing to do business in Switzerland are required to establish a subsidiary or a branch here. (references)

Burma

These purchasing guidelines penalize companies that do business in Burma, making them uncompetitive for government contracts. (references)

Trade

Mexico

It is expected to have a deep impact in the way that Mexican firms do business. (references)

Pakistan

Nineteen foreign commercial banks (of which two are American) with 78 branches, also do business in Pakistan. (references)

Uzbekistan

These provisions can only be overcome by a special presidential decree granting the company the right to do business in dollars. (references)

Travel

Australia

Very soon after meeting, Australians do business on a first-name basis. (references)

Eq. Guinea

Patience and persistence are needed to do business in Equatorial Guinea. (references)

Ireland

It is already possible, however, to do business electronically in Euros. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "DO BUSINESS": do business in ♦ do business with. Additional references.

Chinese 

營業 (to do business, to trade). (various references)

Danish

handle (negotiate, trade). (various references)

Dutch

handelen (act, negotiate, take action, trade), handel drýven (trade). (various references)

Esperanto

komerci (trade). (various references)

Finnish

käydä kauppaa (trade). (various references)

French

refus d'entretenir des relations commerciales (refusal to do business). (various references)

German

handeln (act, act in place of, action, bargain, bargaining, behave, behavior, behaviour, deal, doing, haggle, haggling, negotiate, sell, take action, to act, to act in place of, trade, trading, traffic in), Handel treiben (merchandise, to merchandise, to trade, trade). (various references)

Greek 

συναλλάσσομαι (have dealings, trade). (various references)

Hungarian

üzletet köt (to do a deal with sy, to do business, to make a dicker, to trade, to transact business). (various references)

Italian

lavorare (hew, labor, labour, operate, work). (various references)

Pig Latin

oday usinessbay

Portuguese

fazer negócio com (do business with). (various references)

Russian 

заниматься бизнесом. (various references)

Spanish

negociar con (do business with). (various references)

Swedish

handla (act, be about, buy, conduct, deal, negotiate, shop, trade, traffic, treat of). (various references)

Turkish

ticaret yapmak (merchandise, ply a trade, trade), iş yapmak (deal, job, trade, traffic, transact business, work), alışveriş etmek (merchandise, shop). (various references)

Welsh

masnachu (trade, traffic). (various references)

negotiabuntur, negotiamini, negotians, negotiantes, negotiantur, negotiator, negotiatorum, negotiatus, negotientur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bedouins, business, soubises, subsides.

-3 letters: bedouin, beduins, bonuses, bossies, disuses, essoins, niduses, osseins, session, sinuses, soubise, subside.

-4 letters: beduin, bisons, bodies, bossed, bosses, bosuns, bounds, boused, bouses, busied, busies, bussed, busses, disses, disuse, dobies, donsie, dosses, douses, enosis, eosins, essoin, indues, issued, issues, noesis, noised, noises, nouses, nudies, obsess, onside, onuses, ossein, sondes.

+1 letter: dubiousness.

+2 letters: subdecisions.

+3 letters: dubiousnesses.

+4 letters: libidinousness.

+5 letters: subordinateness.