List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 60

SYNONYMS: business, industry, commerce, trade, traffic.
These nouns apply to forms of activity that have the objective of supplying commodities.

Business pertains broadly to commercial, financial, and industrial activity: decided to go into the oil business.
Industry is the production and manufacture of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale: the computer industry; the arms industry.
Commerce and trade refer to the exchange and distribution of goods or commodities: laws regulating interstate commerce; involved in the domestic fur trade; foreign commerce (or trade).
Traffic pertains broadly to commercial dealings but in particular to businesses engaged in the transportation of goods or passengers: renovated the docks to attract shipping traffic. The word may also suggest illegal trade, as in narcotics: Traffic in stolen goods was brisk.