cloth, faculty; industry, art;
industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade &c. (commerce) 794.
     exercise; work &c. (action) 680; avocation; press of business &c.
(activity) 682. 
     V. pass one’s time in, employ one’s time in, spend one’s time in;
employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one’s business &c. n.; undertake &c. 676; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one’s hand to; have to do with &c. (do) 680.
     office, place, post, chargeship[obs3], incumbency, living; situation,
berth, employ; service &c. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c. 676.
     drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry
on business, do business, transact business &c. n.; keep a shop; ply one’s task, ply one’s trade; labor in one’s vocation; pursue the even tenor of one’s way; attend to business, attend to one’s work.
     officiate, serve, act; act one’s part, play one’s part; do duty; serve
the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation.
     be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with,
be at work on; have one’s hands in, have in hand; have on one’s hands, have on one’s shoulders; bear the burden; have one’s hands full &c. (activity) 682.
     be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through
one’s hands. 
     Adj. businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy
&c. (actively employed) 682; on hand, in hand, in one’s hands; afoot; on foot, on the anvil; going on; acting. 
     Adv. in the course of business, all in one’s day’s work;
professionally &c.  Adj. 
     Phr. “a business with an income at its heels” [Cowper]; amoto
quaeramus seria ludo [Lat][Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Lat][Tacitus].

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     #626.  Plan. —­ N. plan, scheme, design, project; proposal,
proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution &c. (provision) 673; deep-laid plan &c. (premeditated) 611;
     system &c. (order) 58; organization &c. (arrangement) 60; germ &c.
(cause) 153.
     sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche[Fr], brouillon[Fr];
rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.
     drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart
(representation) 554.
     forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays[Fr]; card; bill,
protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare &c. (food) 298; base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U.  S.], ticket [U.  S.].
     role; policy &c. (line of conduct) 692.
     contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device;
pipelaying [U.  S.]; stratagem &c. (cunning) 702; trick &c. (deception) 545; alternative, loophole;