place of business
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3.1
- noun
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local comercial
- In addition, the class spends a full day at a local place of business.
- principal place of business
- have a place of business
Would you accept someone hitting on you in a place of business around other coworkers?
- Would you accept someone hitting on you in a place of business around other coworkers?
- It's like the ACLU, but like the Bad Place version where they try and get people off the hook for not serving gay people at their places of business.
- They have made this place of business operate in a way it hasn't has it hasn't have in many years.
- So we, we started the Matram Family Foundation and we support various, mainly children's hospices or wherever I have a place of business.
Examples
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One implement dealer invited the class to come to his place of business to view farm implements.
Academic text (1996) -
You need to understand the laws in your area governing places of business.
Blog text (1) -
So what brings you out here to my place of business, huh?
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Sir, this is a private place of business.
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This is my place of business.
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This is a place of business.
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On a regular basis, government health workers come to your place of business.
Blog text (19) -
I have no desire to spend money at a place of business that would treat a friend like that.
Blog text (33) -
Preachers are everywhere—in markets, buses, taxis, nightclubs, stadiums, and places of business.
Academic text (1995) -
The bakery on Main Street is my favorite place of business for fresh bread and pastries.
Synonyms
65
1.0
A large place with rooms where people work for businesses
3
1.9
A place where people do paperwork and other work for a company
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2.3
An address where a company has its office or is registered
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3.5
A place where people sell things or offer services, like a shop
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'location where a business operates' is directly and compositionally derived from 'place' (a location) + 'business' (a commercial company) via a standard of-construction, so learners who know the parts can infer the phrase. The extension to an online or virtual 'place' is a pragmatic broadening of 'place' rather than an idiomatic shift, so a B1 learner would likely understand the intended sense.
Etymology
Place of business comes from two simple words: place (a spot or building) and business (work or trade). Long ago people pointed to the shop or stall as the one place where business happened, so the phrase means 'the building or location where work like selling or services is done'.