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business function

nounid 1731·updated May 9, 2026
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An activity that is integral to operations or supporting operations within the entity, e.g. sales, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, etc.

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Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems7 citations · 7 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.01.02 ¶ 203.01.16.d ¶ 103.06.05.d ¶ 103.14.02.c.2 ¶ 103.16.02.b ¶ 203.17.01.c ¶ 203.17.03.b ¶ 1

Classifications

Entity Type

Process75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
business functions
possessive
business function's
pluralpossessive
business functions'

Framework definitions

NERC CIP-010-2 (Config Change Management & Vulnerability) v21 senseview framework →
§1
An activity that is integral to operations or supporting operations within the entity, e.g. sales, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, etc.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 7 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
An activity that is integral to operations or supporting operations within the entity, e.g. sales, marketing, manufacturing, accounting, etc.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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