ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart
from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long
farewell; vacate &c (resign) 757.
renounce &c (abjure) 607; forego, have done with, drop; disuse &c 678; discard &c
782; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of.
break off, leave off; desist; stop &c (cease) 142; hold one's hand, stay one's hand; quit
one's hold; give over, shut up shop.
throw up the game, throw up the cards; give up the point, give up the argument; pass
to the order of the day, move to the previous question.
Adj. unpursued † ; relinquished &c v.; relinquishing &c v..
Int. avast!, &c (stop) 142.
Phr. aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben [G.]; entbehre gern was du nicht hast [G.].
625. Business -- N. business, occupation, employment; pursuit &c 622; what one is
doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.
matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.],
errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty &c 926.
part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field,
line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.
office, place, post, chargeship † , incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service
&c (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c 676.
vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft,
mystery, handicraft; trade &c (commerce) 794.
exercise; work &c (action) 680; avocation; press of business &c (activity) 682.
V. pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in,
employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business
&c n.; undertake &c 676; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to
do with &c (do) 680.
office, place, post, chargeship † , incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service
&c (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c 676.
drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do
business, transact business &c n.; keep a shop; ply one's task, ply one's trade; labor in
one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of one's way; attend to business, attend to one's
work.
officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office of,
discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions
of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio, hold a place,
hold a situation.
be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on;
have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders; bear the
burden; have one's hands full &c (activity) 682.
be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through one's hands.
Adj. businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy &c (actively
employed) 682; on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on;
acting.
Adv. in the course of business, all in one's day's work; professionally &c Adj..