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Definition of Line of business
1. Noun. A particular kind of product or merchandise. "A nice line of shoes"
Generic synonyms: Merchandise, Product, Ware
Specialized synonyms: Sideline
Terms within: Top Of The Line
2. Noun. A particular kind of commercial enterprise. "They are outstanding in their field"
Generic synonyms: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Of Business
Literary usage of Line of business
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The plaintiff then offered to prove that fireworks were an article in his line
of business as a German jobber and importer, for the purpose of showing that ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"DR. wj SMITH Most concerns would have hesitated in launching out in any line of
business in the midst of the world war in the spring of 1918, but we started ..."
3. Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868)
"... Ancestry—His Education and Law Studies—County Attorney—State Reporter—Defends Mr.
McNulty—Removes to Pittsburg—His Line of Business—The Wheeling Case—He ..."
4. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1899)
"Scarcely any line of business is conducted today, or could be conducted today,
... Today any man in any line of business can communicate with any number of ..."
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