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TO MEAN BUSINESS

Definition: TO MEAN BUSINESS

TO MEAN BUSINESS

1. To be earnest. [Colloq.] Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement; employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession; vocation; office; duty.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: TO MEAN BUSINESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-s-s-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: businessman, businessmen.
	-4 letters: abstemious, boninesses, isobutanes, matinesses, minuteness, numbnesses, obtuseness, omnibusses, sanbenitos, sensations, steaminess, uneasiness.
	-5 letters: amnesties, antisense, basements, bassinets, biomasses, botanises, butanones, embassies, essonites, insensate, isobutane, meatiness, mestinoes, misatones, moistness, monetises, mountains, mousiness, mustiness, nastiness, nominates, nonissues, omnibuses, sanbenito, seaminess, seamounts, semitones, sensation, stoniness, sunstones, tubenoses, uneasiest.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-s-s-s-t-u"
	+4 letters: rambunctiousnesses.
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Alternative Orthography: TO MEAN BUSINESS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 4D 45 41 4E 42 55 53 49 4E 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001101 01000101 01000001 01001110 00100000 01000010 01010101 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#77 &#69 &#65 &#78 &#32 &#66 &#85 &#83 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 004D 0045 0041 004E 0042 0055 0053 0049 004E 0045 0053 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544924739354823655534348395353

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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