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bus.

/bɪz/

bus. is the abbreviation of business.

bus. is the abbreviation of bushel.

Meaning of business

Noun

business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

  1. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
    • I left my father's business.
    Synonyms:
    company, enterprise, firm
  2. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
    • He is in the motor and insurance businesses.
  3. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
    • He's such a poor cook, I can't believe he's still in business!
  4. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
    • Business has been slow lately.
  5. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
    • I shall take my business elsewhere.
  6. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
    • This proposal will satisfy both business and labor.

See all 22 meanings of business

Meaning of bushel

Noun

bushel (plural bushels or (dialectal, obsolete) bushel)

  1. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel).
    • The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207
  2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
    • And he sayde unto them: is the candle lighted, to be put under a busshell, or under the borde: ys it not therfore lighted that it shulde be put on a candelsticke?1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark iiij:[21]
  3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
    • a heap containing ten bushels of apples
  4. (colloquial, figuratively) A large indefinite quantity.
    • The prime minister[…]has got pounds of vision. Ounces of it! Pints! A whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish designed to get him through a single news cycle.2022 May 31, Marina Hyde, “Pounds, ounces, pints! Johnson is offering a whole bushel worth of phoned-in gibberish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  5. (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
    Synonyms:
    box

See all 7 meanings of bushel

Noun capitalized: Bus.

Bus.

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of business.

Words that rhyme with bus.

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Questions about bus.

What is bus. the abbreviation of?
Bus. is the abbreviation of business.
What part of speech is bus.?
Bus. is a noun.
How do you pronounce bus.?
Bus. is pronounced /bɪz/.

Words near bus. in the dictionary

  1. bus-holders
  2. bus-keeper
  3. bus-keepers
  4. bus-stop flight
  5. bus-stop flights
  6. bus.
  7. Busa
  8. busaa
  9. Busaana
  10. busable
  11. Busak

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