A trade (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a officially recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers.[1] Businesses are chief in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. Notable exceptions include cooperative enterprises and state-owned enterprises. Businesses can also be formed not-for-profit or be state-owned.

The etymology of “business” relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or

society as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work.

The term “business” has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage (above) to mean a particular company or business,

 the global usage to refer to a particular market sector, such as “the music business”

 and multiple forms such as agribusiness, or the broadest meaning to include all activity

by the the people of suppliers of goods and services still, the exact definition of business,

 like a great deal else in the attitude of business, is a matter of debate.