Category: B

Consolidation or amalgamation is the act of merging many things into one. In business, it often refers to the mergers and acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones.

Protection for damages and liability on company and commercial automobiles. This replaces the business auto coverage form.

These laws impose a moratorium on certain kinds of transactions (e.g., asset sales, mergers) between a large shareholder and the firm for a period usually ranging between three and five years after the shareholder’s stake passes a pre-specified (minority) threshold. These laws are in place in more than half the U.S. States.

A state of feeling inexorably intertwined or even imprisoned by your business. Business bondage is frequently experienced by new entrepreneurs and small-business owners.

Insurance designed to allow remaining partners or shareholders to purchase the portion of the company owned by a deceased partner or owner.

A small card printed with one’s name, professional occupation, company position, business address, and other contact information.

The activity performed by an organization to ensure that critical business functions will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other entities that must have access to those functions.

A clamp that grips and protects an electric cable where it passes through a metal panel or more generally, a bearing for a revolving shaft.

This word embraces everything about which a person can be employed. People v. ComÕrs of Taxes, 23 N. Y. 242, 244. That which occupies the time, attention, and labor of men for the purpose of a livelihood or profit. The doing of a single act pertaining to a particular business will not be considered engaging in or carrying on the business; yet a series of such acts would be so considered. Goddard v. Chaffee, 2 Allen (Mass.) 305, 79 Am. Dec. 796; Sterne v. State, 20 Ala. 46. Labor, business, and work are not synonyms. Labor may be business, but it is not necessarily so; and business is not always labor. Making an agreement for the sale of a chattel is not within a prohibition of labor upon Sunday, though it is (if by a merchant in his calling) within a prohibition upon business. Bloom v. Richards, 2 Ohio St. 387.

A burroch, dam, or small wear over a river, where traps are laid for the taking of fish. Cowell.