business-to-business
noun
busi·ness-to-busi·ness
ˈbiz-nəs-tə-ˈbiz-nəs 
: a sector of business activity that focuses on commerce performed between businesses rather than between a business and a consumer
a company that specializes in business-to-business
Business-to-business, the sale of goods and services to other companies rather than to the public, has flourished for centuries.—
Joanne Legomsky
—usually used before another nounJoanne LegomskyBusiness-to-business sales rose 4.4% from a year earlier, but retail sales increased less than 1%.—The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journalbusiness-to-business companies
the business-to-business market
—abbreviation B2B
Examples of business-to-business in a Sentence
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An equal partnership between Goldberg, Kurzweil and Shen, Chemistry will focus on early-stage investments, especially at Series A, in mostly business-to-business startups in areas like fintech, work software and developer and infrastructure tools.
—Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Settled in the Atlanta area with their then-four children, Erin, a former middle-school math teacher, and Lee, a chemical engineer, teamed up to found The Hanson Group, a business-to-business provider of chemical materials.
—Alex Prewitt, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
Her events calendar is already filled until January 2026 and carefully divided between business-to-business and business-to-consumer efforts.
—Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
The company is putting emphasis on car-sharing and business-to-business services like fleet management.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
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Alex Konrad, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Settled in the Atlanta area with their then-four children, Erin, a former middle-school math teacher, and Lee, a chemical engineer, teamed up to found The Hanson Group, a business-to-business provider of chemical materials.
—Alex Prewitt, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
Her events calendar is already filled until January 2026 and carefully divided between business-to-business and business-to-consumer efforts.
—Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
The company is putting emphasis on car-sharing and business-to-business services like fleet management.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
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