biz
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覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
biz は business のくだけた短縮形で、語末を切り、発音に合わせて s の音を z で表した形です。show biz（芸能界）や the music biz（音楽業界）のような親しみのある表現で覚え、正式な文書では business を選びます。
Connect biz directly with business: it is a casual shortening in which the final sound is represented by z. Remember it through common combinations such as show biz, the music biz, and the advertising biz. These phrases usually refer to an industry or line of work, often with a relaxed or insider tone. Use business in formal reports, applications, and professional correspondence, but expect biz in conversation, journalism, entertainment writing, and informal names.
biz の類義語・関連語
biz の語源・成り立ち Etymology
biz は business のくだけた短縮形で、business は古英語 bisignes「心配・忙しさ・仕事」にさかのぼります。核にある bisig は「忙しい」という意味で、「忙しくしていること」から「仕事・商売」へ意味が育ちました。関連語は busy, businesslike です。
Biz is an informal abbreviation of business, formed by shortening the longer word and spelling its final voiced sound with z. Business developed from Old English bisignes, meaning anxiety, activity, occupation, or work, which was based on bisig, the ancestor of busy. The historical progression was broadly from being occupied or busy to one’s work and then to trade or commerce.
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