Business-end meaning

The part of a weapon or tool, usually at the front, that inflicts damage or performs work.
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The end or part of a tool, weapon, etc. most directly involved in carrying out the device's function.
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(idiomatic) The part of a tool or other similar item, that is physically used for its operation, rather than the part which is held.

The business end of a hammer is known as the "head".

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Sentence Examples

  • I approach the business end cautiously, keen to photograph the parasitic copepod that is found on each shark's eye.

  • No word on the business end of things or whether Jay's Rocawear or Beyonce's House of Dereon clothing lines pulled in a profit.

  • The BlackBerry family of smartphones from RIM may have once catered to the corporate business end of the market, but many of these phones are now being marketed toward regular consumers as well.

  • This is not a show that presents these interactions in a documentary style, only showing the business end of the deals.

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