business establishment
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈbɪznəs ɪˌstæblɪʃmənt/
:
establecimiento comercial
- A small business establishment can often provide personalized service that larger stores cannot.
- downtown business establishment
- city's business establishment
- business establishment remains mostly white
Examples
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Instability and uncertainty are dreaded by the Hong Kong business establishment, which fears investors might then be scared away.
Academic text (1997) -
The café on the corner is a popular business establishment where people gather for meetings.
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This is a business establishment with posted hours.
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Take photographs or make a video of your business establishment, both inside and outside, to help with property insurance claims.
Blog text (16) -
There has been a constant search by every homeowner and business establishment owner for the cheapest electricity.
Blog text (21) -
The total number of business establishments impacted was 748,441.
Blog text (1) -
Across from the mall, the business establishments seemed to be equally divided among fast food joints, liquor stores, and instant copy shops that offered passport photos.
Fiction book (2001) -
Indoor air quality was monitored in business establishments before and after smoke-free laws were implemented in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky.
Academic text (2008) -
Many business establishments in the area offer discounts to attract more customers.
Synonyms
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3.8
A place like a shop or hotel that sells goods and offers services
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3.1
A building where a company does its work, for example selling goods or offering services
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1.9
A place where people do paperwork and other work for a company
A shop that sells goods to people
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'business' (a commercial company) plus 'establishment' (a concrete firm or place); together they straightforwardly denote a place where commercial activities occur. This is a common, cross-linguistic noun–noun composition and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Business establishment comes from combining business, meaning work that sells goods or services, and establishment, meaning 'something set up'. Imagine someone opening a shop and setting up a place to sell. That place is their establishment, so business establishment means 'a place where business is done'.