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1. harassment; a scolding; general bad treatment. (*Typically: get ~; give someone ~.) The guys have been giving me the business about my new hairstyle. Sam was giving Tom the business about being late all the time.

2. Sl an execution. (Underworld. *Typically: get ~; give someone ~.) The mob wanted to give him the business for confessing to the federal prosecutor.

See:

• about (one's) business
• about business
• be back in business
• be in business
• be put out of business
• be the business
• business
• business as usual
• Business before pleasure
• business end
• business end of
• business end of something
• business girl
• business is business
• business woman
• do (one's) business
• do a land-office business
• do a roaring trade
• do business
• do the business
• funny business
• get down to business
• get nose out of business
• get the business
• Get your nose out of my business!
• give (someone) the business
• give someone the business
• go about
• go about business
• go out of business
• have no business doing
• How's business?
• I'll thank you to mind your own business
• in business
• in the business of
• is in business
• keep nose out of business
• Keep your nose out of my business!
• land-office business
• Let's get down to business
• like crazy
• like nobody’s business
• like nobody's business
• make it business to
• make it one's business
• mean business
• mind one's own business
• mind own business
• Mind own business!
• Mind your own business
• minding my own business
• mix business with pleasure
• monkey business
• none of business
• none of one's business
• none of your business!
• open for business
• out of business
• place of business
• Punctuality is the soul of business
• put (someone or something) out of business
• send about business
• send someone about his or her business
• strictly business
• stroke of business
• taking care of business
• That’s show business
• That’s show business for you
• that's show business
• the business
• the business end
• the business end of