(business) An association of businesses to promote their interests in a community.

(idiomatic) without interruption, without stopping, continuously / upright; erect; endways

In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. / Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. / So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated. / (theater) Offstage.

Inoperative, disabled. / Cancelled; not happening. / Not fitted; not being worn. / Rancid, rotten, gone bad. / (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.

Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon. / Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.

(transitive, slang) To kill. / (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.

(usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed.

Used to form nouns of quality, state, or condition.

(transitive) To remove. / (transitive) To imitate, often in a satirical manner. / (intransitive, of an aircraft or spacecraft) To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.