“business” in Latin

occupatio (engagement): opus (the work): negotium; mercatura, mercatio (traffic): res (affair, concern): officium (one’s bounden business): munus (office, post): studium (eager application to something): cura (care for something): ministerium (service): it is the business (i. e., part) of one, est alicujus. For business’ sake, negotii gratia. Full of business, negotiosus, negotiorum plenus, negotiis implicatus: to be so, occupatissimum esse, multis negotiis (occupationibus) implicatum (distentum) esse. To do business, rem gerere (generally): negotiari (as a lender of money and buyer-up of corn): mercaturam facere (as a large merchant). To divide the business between them (of two consuls, legates. etc.), officia inter se partiri. To make a business of something, factitare, exercere aliquid. To do a good, bad business, bene, male rem gerere. To do a good deal of business, to have a good business (of a merchant), mercaturam facere non ignobilem. To be connected in business with anybody, ratione cum aliquo conjunctum esse. I have a business to settle with you, mihi est res tecum. What business have you here? quid tibi hic negotii est? Hoto is it with the business? quo loco res est?ut res se habet? ‘Tis my, your business, meum, tuum est. This is not my business, hoc non meum est, hae non meae sunt partes. To mind his own business, suum negotium gerere; res suas curare: others’ business, aliena negotia curare. To make anything one’s (principal) business, aliquid sibi studio habere (Ter.); omne studium conferre ad aliquid; omni cogitatione et cura incumbere in aliquid; onmi contentione elaborare, summa ope niti, or eniti et contendere (these three with ut). To find one business (figuratively), negotium alicui facessere; aliquem exercere. To the business in hand! ad rem! (to a speaker who is keeping off from the real point at issue). This is the true business of our lives, ad hoc praecipue nati sumus. I make it the business of my life to do good to others, id unum ago, ut quam plurimis bene faciain. This is the business of a life, hoc vitam omnem desiderat. He is the man to do your business, hunc ipsum requirebas. A man of business, homo ad res gerendas natus; negotiis tractandis idoneus.