business vs carrier

carrier vs business

business and carrier both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
business	Yes	No	No	No
carrier	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, carrier is a hyponym of business; that is, carrier is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than business:

business: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
carrier: a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

Other hyponyms of business include agency, brokerage, common carrier, chain, business firm, firm, house, dealership, franchise, maker, manufacturer, manufacturing business, partnership, processor, shipbuilder, underperformer.

business (noun)	carrier (noun)
the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money	(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects	a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
the volume of commercial activity	a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like
incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect	a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
an immediate objective	a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
a rightful concern or responsibility	(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it	a boy who delivers newspapers
customers collectively	a man who delivers the mail
business concerns collectively	someone whose employment involves carrying something
	a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
	an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction

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