Definition of "business activity" []

• Activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "But some of the highest-leverage work that government can do is to set policy and disburse funds in ways that create market incentives for business activity that improves the lives of the poor."
• "With our rapid successes, which will try the brain of the stoutest, and our as sudden reverses, toppling in a day the stateliest pile that energy and opportunity can rear, what must be the wear and tear of that central force, which is at once the driving-wheel and motive power of our business activity -- the nervous system?"
• "Choose a business activity such as timber or animal breeding, showing, training, or racing, which requries that you show a profit in only two out of seven consecutive years."