n. a person who rules or guides or inspires others

n. a piece of unrecorded tape that is used for threading the tape onto the tape drive

n. a row of dots or a short line to lead the eye across a space

n. something that leads

n. the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"

n. a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business"

n. an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening"

n. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"

n. a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers

n. incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious"

n. the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"

n. business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree"

n. customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele"

n. a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"

adj. relating to or characteristic of trade or traders; "the mercantile North was forging ahead"- Van Wyck Brooks

n. directs the work of other

n. someone who popularizes a new fashion

n. someone who controls resources and expenditures

n. an officer in command of a military unit

n. a ruler who is unconstrained by law

n. a horse used to set the pace in racing

n. one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

n. someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

n. someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

n. the male ruler of an empire

n. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson"

n. the chief executive of a republic

n. someone who gives advice about problems

n. an officer in the airforce

n. someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight

n. a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law

n. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"

n. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me"

n. a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"

n. the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today"

n. an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter"

n. a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"

n. training to improve strength or self-control

n. bringing together military forces

n. the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology"

n. the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"

n. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"

n. a group of followers or enthusiasts

n. a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain

n. a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market"

n. an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

n. (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims; "the iron interests stepped up production"

adj. organized principally for financial gain; "Christmas has become a commercialized spectacle"

adj. profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"

adj. (of production of chemicals) made for commercial purposes especially on a large scale; "technical (or commercial) sulfuric acid"

adj. resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations; "analysts content that the stock market is due for a technical rally"; "the fall is only a technical correction"

adj. relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce: "a trade fair"; "trade journals"; "trade goods"

n. a person who accepts the leadership of another

n. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage