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business model

business model noun: the particular way in which a business ensures that it generates income, one that includes the choice of offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.

Noun

business model (plural business models)

  1. The particular way in which a business ensures that it generates income, one that includes the choice of offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.
    • The venture capitalist Chris Dixon told me, “They [YC] created the greatest business model of all time. For basically no money[…]they get seven per cent of a lot of the best startups in Silicon Valley!”2016 October 3, Tad Friend, quoting Chris Dixon, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker
    • Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the...2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

business model meaning in Tamil

business model in Tamil

வணிக முன்வடிவு, வணிக அமைப்பு, வர்த்தக முறை

Examples of business model in a sentence

  • University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
  • Between 1997 and 2006, ownership of Glenfeshie passed between three Danish businessmen – and with it a self-destructive business model.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:

Forms of business model

pluralbusiness models

Questions about business model

What does business model mean?
Business model means the particular way in which a business ensures that it generates income, one that includes the choice of offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.
What is business model in Tamil?
Business model in Tamil is வணிக முன்வடிவு, வணிக அமைப்பு, வர்த்தக முறை. See Business model meaning in Tamil.
How do you use business model in a sentence?
University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
What part of speech is business model?
Business model is a noun.
What is the plural of business model?
The plural of business model is business models.

Words near business model in the dictionary

  1. business lunches
  2. business machine
  3. business machines
  4. business man
  5. business men
  6. business model
  7. business models
  8. business object
  9. business objects
  10. business opportunities
  11. business owner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: business model (page history and authors); business model (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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