Definition of "business life" [business life]

• A career in industrial or commercial or professional activities (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "She refused to be drawn into giving a personal opinion of Randish's character and was adamant that to her knowledge, apart from the long-running dispute with Mason, there had been no disagreement or conflict in his business life which could possibly have led to last night's tragedy."
• "The Montauk is a social club of high standing, whose members are of professional and business life and different political and religious faiths."
• "Allowed that this was a hard world, and that it was little enough we could do in our business life to scatter sunshine along the way; but he proposed that every can which left his packing-house after this should carry the call to a better life into some humble home."