{
  "id": "business.economic",
  "term": "business",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "business",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of make and use interactions that persist for profit",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "interaction.process",
      "make.verb",
      "use.application",
      "persist.continue",
      "profit.economic"
    ],
    "interaction": "The grouped things interact by making and using, continuing over time to generate profit.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sustained exchange",
      "profit-driven activity",
      "organized production and consumption"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Walmart moved $600B in goods in 2023 through 10,500 stores, sustaining profit via supply-chain coordination.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel, maintained by thousands since 1991, enables commercial servers and Android devices to operate profitably.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Dutch East India Company shipped spices from Batavia to Amsterdam between 1602 and 1799, returning 18% annual profits on average.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "commercial.economic",
    "company.economic",
    "services.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "business",
    "businesses"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was correct but record omitted two essential components: 'persist.continue' and 'profit.economic'. Added them to components to fully ground the concept. Definition remains unchanged as it a"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-business.economic"
}