Business

A business is a method of organizing work, where one or more people offer to sell products or services to other people for more money than it costs them to make or give it. The word business comes from the word busy and means being busy.

Some businesses are created to get more money for the owner of the business, others are created to give a service without getting more money, just to deliver the service and get some money.

The number of people who work for a business can be as low as one, such as a barbershop in a small village, or as many as hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, such as a company like Microsoft which makes computer software and some small electronic goods.

Some businesses do not need a fixed location, such as an office or a store. A carpenter or an electrician who works for himself usually brings everything they need for work in their truck. Fishermen who stay out at sea work out of their boats.

Business can also mean the work or current state of the business, as in doing business or business is good.