in the business of
idiom
: to have (something) as one's job or purpose
A public library is in the business of providing information to the public.
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Nearly all on the council members vocalized their beliefs that the city should not be in the business of owning and operating a homeless shelter.
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Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
The My Struggle author has been back in the business of non-autobiographical novels for a few years now, but there’s something familiar, even archetypal, about the narrator of The School of Night, the fourth volume in Knausgaard’s Morning Star sequence.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
This cream-of-the-crop hospitality, not to mention Wildflower Farms’ bucolic, utopia-evoking environs, seems like an ideal gateway for Abask — which, since 2022, has been in the business of breathing an air of unfussy refinement into the home decor space — to do its best work.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Dec. 2025
Trucks overtook trains in the business of produce-shipping.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
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Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
The My Struggle author has been back in the business of non-autobiographical novels for a few years now, but there’s something familiar, even archetypal, about the narrator of The School of Night, the fourth volume in Knausgaard’s Morning Star sequence.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
This cream-of-the-crop hospitality, not to mention Wildflower Farms’ bucolic, utopia-evoking environs, seems like an ideal gateway for Abask — which, since 2022, has been in the business of breathing an air of unfussy refinement into the home decor space — to do its best work.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Dec. 2025
Trucks overtook trains in the business of produce-shipping.
—Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
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“In the business of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20business%20of. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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