carry on one's business

  • 1carry on trade or business — To conduct, prosecute or continue a particular avocation or business as a continuous operation or permanent occupation. The repetition of acts may be sufficient. To hold one s self out to others as engaged in the selling of goods or services.… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 2carry on trade or business — To conduct, prosecute or continue a particular avocation or business as a continuous operation or permanent occupation. The repetition of acts may be sufficient. To hold one s self out to others as engaged in the selling of goods or services.… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 3To do one's business — do do (d[=oo]), v. t. or auxiliary. [imp. {did} (d[i^]d); p. p. {done} (d[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Doing} (d[=oo] [i^]ng). This verb, when transitive, is formed in the indicative, present tense, thus: I do, thou doest (d[=oo] [e^]st) or dost… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4carry on business — carry on trade or business To conduct, prosecute or continue a particular avocation or business as a continuous operation or permanent occupation. The repetition of acts may be sufficient. To hold one s self out to others as engaged in the… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 5carry on business — carry on trade or business To conduct, prosecute or continue a particular avocation or business as a continuous operation or permanent occupation. The repetition of acts may be sufficient. To hold one s self out to others as engaged in the… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 6carry on trade — or business To conduct, prosecute or continue a particular avocation or business as a continuous operation or permanent occupation. The repetition of acts may be sufficient. To hold one s self out to others as engaged in the selling of goods or… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 7carry on trade — or business To conduct, prosecute or continue a particular avocation or business as a continuous operation or permanent occupation. The repetition of acts may be sufficient. To hold one s self out to others as engaged in the selling of goods or… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 8Business — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Business >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 business business occupation employment Sgm: N 1 pursuit pursuit &c. 622 Sgm: N 1 what one is doing what one is doing what one is about Sgm: N 1 affair affair …

    English dictionary for students

  • 9carry — v. & n. v. ( ies, ied) 1 tr. support or hold up, esp. while moving. 2 tr. convey with one from one place to another. 3 tr. have on one s person (carry a watch). 4 tr. conduct or transmit (pipe carries water; wire carries electric current). 5 tr.… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 10carry — 1 verb carried, carrying 1 LIFT AND TAKE (T) to take something somewhere in your hands or arms, on your back etc: A porter helped me carry my luggage. | Let me carry that for you. | carry sth around/out/to etc: I m not carrying it around all day! …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English