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business is business

meaning certain acts necessitate the involvement of financial exchange rather than being done as a favour. Also used as an excuse for unscrupulous acts of financial gain. Popular with City Boys in London, and Essex
Hornchurch lad ripping off good folk for a quick make..."Business is Business"
by cw325i October 19, 2010
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business is business

young thug’s third album that released on june 23, 2023. features include drake, future, 21 savage, travis scott, yak gotti, lil uzi vert, bslime, lil gotit, and nate ruess.
thugger’s album business is business is my aoty so far! FREESEX🐍
by lmaoooderek June 23, 2023
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This is business; not personal.

This is business; not personal. — “THIS IS BUSINESS, NOT PERSONAL”, is perhaps the most seminal teaching; and, the most valuable lesson taken from the movie The Godfather. The rule foreshadowed the coming age where corporations would be considered as people and the lives of individuals would be over shadowed by the need for a corporation to continue unobstructed.

One aspect of this teaching is urging a warrior or a holy man (see Godfather 3) never to lose his or her objectivity when faced with facts.

Another aspect of this teaching — which is somewhat ironic — is that a “business decision” is always “personal” to someone. And, if you ever woke up in a bed beside a severed horses head; or, been machine gunned while pinned in a New Jersey toll booth; then the personal aspect of “business decisions” would be crystal clear.

This rule also come into sharp relief if you have ever been replaced by a machine or a non-union worker who will work for less money than you would.

It’s hard to believe that with a of the people who quote both Scarface and The Godfather, this sentence has not found its way into The Urban Dictionary in the year before 2023 C.E. That said I offer it here — and my offering is strictly business and not personal.
Amazon just replaced thousands of individual human employees with computer automation and scanners; but, This is business; not personal.
by Mind Hunter the Profiler February 26, 2023
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what the business is

another way to say what's up, what's going on
Say brah, what the business is?
Me, I'm chillin

What they do, what the business is? Word on the streets, Jeezy know what the handle is. - Young Jeezy
by Mic Check September 11, 2005
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what da business is

what's going on? What's crackin?
Tim came up to Ern and said " What da business is??"

Ern said " just chillin"
by MsCrystalle August 14, 2008
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Business is time

Crazy person for the original saying "Time is money"

Unsure how this confusion started, but most likely from, again, half listening to people when they talk, explain something to you or try and teach you new words/sayings/procedures.
**Whilst on telephone**

Flynmon: "Hurry up, I'm waiting, business is time."
Person 2: " I beg your pardon. What do you mean?"
Flynmon: "You know. I'm in a hurry and we're wasting time - Business is time"
Person 2: "WTF, haha, sure" **Hangs up on**
by BrowneSugarLover November 27, 2010
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what the business is

Term used when trying to find out where drugs are.
A. hey what the business is?
B. man i get the work to you in about an hour
by Danny B-D-unit April 16, 2008
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