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biz

[ biz ]

noun

Informal.
  1. business:

    How's the used car biz these days? Her brother's in show biz.



biz

1

/ ɪ /

noun

  1. informal.
    short for business
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

biz

2

the internet domain name for

  1. a business
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of biz1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; by shortening and respelling
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Reckons Crow, who got her start in the music biz as a backup singer for Jackson on tour behind “Bad”: “There’s no one that doesn’t know that song.”

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Anyway, sometimes you go on to these things, and people are talking about, you know, the biz.

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The Hoover article was what we in the news biz often pigeonhole as “interesting, if true.”

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Richard, your song ”Don’t Mean Nothing” is an indictment of the music biz.

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Earlier this year, he realized show biz was not for him.

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