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**A business**: A legally recognized organization or enterprise that operates with the objective of earning a profit from the sale of goods or services **Business**: The activity in which you participate in order to earn money (i.e. "I'm in the computer business.") **Client**: A regular customer that receives your professional services **Commerce**: The buying and selling of goods **Company**: Usually considered a business that has employees. **Contract**: A formal agreement to do work for pay **Customer**: The person or company that purchases and pays for product or service; note that the customer may not be the user of the product; also note that some companies think in terms of internal and external customers **Delivery**: When the product is delivered to the customer or the job is completed **e-Commerce**: Buying and selling done over the Internet **Employee**: A person working for a company **Entrepreneur: ** a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. **Marketing**: The commercial functions involved in transferring goods from producer to consumer **Product**: Something produced; goods **Service**: Work done for others; changing the state of a product, which is then delivered; for example, cleaning a dirty floor results in "delivering" a clean floor to the customer <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Supplier**: The person or company that provides goods or services needed to do your job <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**User**: The person or company that uses a purchased product or service; could also be called the consumer

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Additional business terms and definitions can be found at Washington Post Business Terms Glossary