THESAURUS
handicraft
architecture, art, artisan work, artisanship, assembly, building, business, calling, career, career building, careerism, casting, composition, construction, conversion, craft, crafting, craftsmanship, craftwork, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, erection, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, game, growing, handiwork, harvesting, industrial art, industrial design, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, machining, making, manual art, manufacture, manufacturing, metalcraft, metier, milling, mining, mission, molding, mystery, number, occupation, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, profession, pursuit, racket, raising, refining, shaping, smelting, specialization, specialty, stonecraft, trade, vocation, walk, walk of life, woodcraft, work, workmanship
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handicraft
Business
N
business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery,
handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.
Action
N
action, performance, doing perpetration, exercise, excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor, praxis, execution, procedure,
handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force, feat, exploit, achievement, handiwork, workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy, actor, doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation, in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of, red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in, action is eloquence, actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, awake, arise, or be forever fall'n, dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts, the great end of life is not knowledge but action, thought is the soul of act, vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, we live in deeds not years.