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Bush ClovernounMWEshrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United Statesverified
Bush HibiscusnounMWEsouthern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowersverified
Bush HoneysucklenounMWEspreading bush of northeastern United States having small clusters of fragrant green and yellow flowersverified
Bush LawyernounMWEstout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growthverified
Bush LeaguenounMWEa league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)verified
Bush NasturtiumnounMWEannual with deep yellow flowers smaller than the common garden nasturtiumverified
Bush PeanounMWEany of various plants of the genus Thermopsis having trifoliate leaves and yellow or purple racemose flowersverified
Bush PoppynounMWEevergreen shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico often cultivated for its fragrant golden yellow flowersverified
Bush VioletnounMWEany of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowersverified
Bush WillownounMWEsmall South African tree having creamy yellow fragrant flowers usually growing on stream banksverified
Bushy AsternounMWEstiff perennial of the eastern United States having small linear leaves and numerous tiny white flower headsverified
Bushytail WoodratnounMWEany of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North Americaverified
business activitynounMWEThe functions, processes, actions, and transactions of an organization and its employees.verified
Business ConcernnounMWEa commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute itverified
business continuitynounMWEThe providing of critical business functions to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other entities at acceptable predefined levels after incidents and business interruptions.verified
Business Continuity PlannounMWEThe documentation of a predetermined set of instructions or procedures that describe how an organization’s mission/business functions will be sustained during and after a significant disruption.verified
Business Continuity Plan (BCP)nounMWEA comprehensive written plan to maintain or resume business in the event of a disruption. BCP includes both the technology recovery capability (often referred to as disaster recovery) and the business unit(s) recovery capability.verified
Business Continuity planningnounMWEThe act of creating processes and procedures to put into place to ensure that essential organizational functions can continue during and after a disaster.verified
business continuity programnounMWEA documented approach undertaken by an organization to implement business continuity.verified
Business Continuity StrategynounMWEComprehensive strategies to recover, resume, and maintain all critical business functions.verified
business continuity testingnounMWEThe act of performing a test to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization's business continuity plan.verified
Business CyclenounMWErecurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and declineverified
Business Data ProcessingnounMWEAny operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated meansverified
Business EnterprisenounMWEthe activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspectsverified
Business EstablishmentnounMWEan establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are renderedverified
Business ExpensenounMWEordinary and necessary expenses incurred in a taxpayer's business or tradeverified
Business FirmnounMWEthe members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishmentsverified
business functionnounMWEAn activity that is integral to operations or supporting operations within the entity, e.g. sales, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, etc.verified
business impactnounMWEThe financial, reputational or operational consequences to the business.verified
Business Impact AnalysisnounMWEAn analysis of an enterprise’s requirements, processes, and interdependencies used to characterize information system contingency requirements and priorities in the event of a significant disruption.verified
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)nounMWEThe process of identifying the potential impact of uncontrolled, non-specific events on an institution's business processes.verified
Business impact analysis/assessmentnounMWEEvaluating the criticality and sensitivity of information assets An exercise that determines the impact of losing the support of any resource to an enterprise, establishes the escalation of that loss over time, identifies the minimum resources needed to recover, and prioritizes the recovery of processes and the supporting system Scope Note: This process also includes addressing: -Income loss -Unexpected expense -Legal issues (regulatory compliance or contractual) -Interdependent processes -Loss of public reputation or public confidenceverified
Business IndexnounMWEa statistical compilation that provides a context for economic or financial conditionsverified
Business Interruption InsurancenounMWEinsurance that provides protection for the loss of profits and continuing fixed expenses resulting from a break in commercial activities due to the occurrence of a perilverified
Business LunchnounMWElunch (usually at a restaurant) where business is discussed and the cost is charged as a business expenseverified
business operationnounMWEThe day-to-day execution, monitoring and management of business processes.verified
Business OrganisationnounMWEa commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute itverified
Business OrganizationnounMWEa commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute itverified
business ownernounMWEAn organizational role (not a job title) assigned to a senior official who holds accountability for one or more missions, business functions, or business processes that one or more information systems are built to support. In the NIST Risk Management Framework, the business owner is responsible for defining the mission and business functions and processes that a system is intended to support, and assists in developing organization-wide tailored control baselines. Mission or business owners coordinate with authorizing officials, system owners, and security and privacy officers to ensure that security and privacy requirements flow into organizational procurements and acquisitions. In practice the role is used to anchor risk decisions to organizational impact — the business owner is the party who can articulate what harm to the supported mission or function actually means in operational and strategic terms, and who therefore participates in risk acceptance alongside (but distinctly from) the system owner and authorizing official.verified
business partnernounMWEAn individual or business (and its employees), other than a vendor, that has some degree of involvement with the entity's business dealings or agrees to cooperate, to any degree, with the entity (for example, a computer manufacturer who works with another company that supplies it with parts).verified
business processnounMWEA collection of linked activities that takes one or more kinds of input and creates an output that is of value to an FMI’s stakeholders. A business process may comprise several assets, including information, ICT resources, personnel, logistics and organisational structure, which contribute either directly or indirectly to the added value of the service.verified
Business Process ManagementnounMWEDiscipline involving any combination of modeling, automation, execution, control, measurement and optimization of business activity flows, in support of enterprise goals, spanning systems, employees, customers, and partners within and beyond the enterprise boundaries.verified
Business RelationshipnounMWEa formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business servicesverified
business requirementnounMWEA condition or need — operational, legal, regulatory, contractual, or organizational — that an enterprise must satisfy in order to carry out its mission and sustain its operations, independent of any particular technical solution. In security and compliance frameworks, the term is used compositionally: "business" scopes the requirement to the enterprise's mission and operational context (contrasted with, for example, purely technical or regulatory requirements in isolation), while "requirement" carries its ordinary engineering/governance meaning of a constraint that must be met. NIST uses it to describe the mission and operational context within which security controls must fit, and as business requirements change, security mechanisms such as access controls must adapt accordingly. Federal agencies apply security concepts in accordance with and in the context of the agency's missions, business functions, and environment of operation — "business requirement" being the shorthand for that contextual driver.verified
business resumption testingnounMWEA form of testing designed to determine the effectiveness of an organization's in-place strategy for full recovery of business functions following a disaster or disruption.verified
Business RulenounMWEDefinition, constraint, dependency, or decision criteria that determine the method of execution of a task or tasks, or influences the order of execution of a task or tasks. Business rules assert control, or influence the behavior, of a business process within computing systems.verified
Business SchoolnounMWEa graduate school offering study leading to a degree of Master in Business Administrationverified
business strategynounMWEA term used in business planning that implies a careful selection and application of resources to obtain a competitive advantage in anticipation of future events or trends.verified
business unitnounMWEA division or segment of an organization that operates as an independent enterprise representing a specific business function.verified
Business ValuenounMWEHow much a business is worth. Business value is a highly subjective measure because it involves estimating the value of intangible assets like trade secrets and brand recognition. It adds to this the value of tangible assets like machinery and stockholder equity. Business value is especially important for potential investors or buyers.verified
Bust-Up TakeovernounMWEa leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeoververified
Bustard QuailnounMWEsmall quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toeverified
Butacaine SulfatenounMWEa white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anestheticverified