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business life

business life

2 3.5
Part of a person's life spent working in business or a job
  • noun
translation icon : vida profesional
  • Many professionals feel that maintaining a balance between personal relationships and business life is essential for success.
  • personal and business life

So backstabbing people who told me, oh, but you're switching from a business life to a fashion life.

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Examples

  • Paul, who had spent his business life in negotiations, had learned to feel when an atmosphere was changing and the subject must be dropped.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • "The first reality is that financial discipline is part of business life these days."

    Academic text (2000)
  • If you work from home, it can be difficult to separate your personal life from your business life.

    Blog text (2)
  • Everything you do in business life needs to be really strategic, meaning it's got to make sense.

  • And I do believe that your personal life and your business life are not separate entities because one will naturally affect the other.

  • I don't mix my business life and my personal life.

  • Most of the mistakes I have made in my long business life, painful as they were, became unplanned growth and learning lessons.

    Blog text (13)
  • This isn't a snarky comment so much as a fact of business life.

    Blog text (32)
  • Their characteristics are clear: an embrace of adaptability and flexibility, an openness to learning from anywhere, and decisiveness tempered by the knowledge that business life today can shift radically every three months or so.

    Blog text (27)
  • With regard to technology and presence, one practice I've instituted in my business life is "E-mail Free Fridays." On Fridays, I eschew e-mail, instant messaging, and text messaging.

    Blog text (22)

Synonyms

career
vsbusiness life
1.8

The jobs a person does during their working life

takes a broader view of work beyond just sequences of jobs
professional life
vsbusiness life
32 2.8

The time a person spends working in a job or career

is focused more on work in commerce and industry sectors

How Involved

business life
2 3.5
executive
533 4.5
employee
1.3
part-timer
8 3.0
casual
19 2.8

Surface Forms

business life singular

Morphology

business + life

The meaning 'the part of someone's life spent working in business' is directly derivable from combining 'business' (occupation, commerce) with 'life' (a person's way of living). This noun–noun composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be readily understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Business life paints a picture of someone whose days are full of offices, meetings, and deals, with business mixed into their whole life. So, it means the part of a person's life that is spent 'working' in business or building a 'career'.