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Business as usual refers to a situation that’s proceeding as it normally does.

Business as usual is sometimes used to mock or criticize someone’s actions during a crisis or emergency, as in Despite the numerous scandals rocking the company, it was business as usual for the hapless CEO.��

The phrase can also be used to refer to a return to normal activity after a problem or is solved or a crisis ends.

Example: The power outage was fixed last night and the neighborhood is back to business as usual today.

The first records of the phrase business as usual come from the late 1800s. This phrase is thought to originate from stores announcing they would continue to operate as they usually did despite an emergency or interrupting event. By 1914, it was being used more generally when Winston Churchill used the phrase in a speech to encourage British citizens to act normally despite British involvement in World War I.

The business in business as usual does not have to be boring or mundane, only usual or customary. For a sports team that usually wins its �������t¶��, winning is business as usual.

What are some synonyms for business as usual?

• just another day at the office
• ordinary
• normal

What are some words that share a root or word element with business as usual?��

• business
• as
• usual

What are some words that often get used in discussing business as usual?

• continuing
• not
• operate
• interruption
• chaos
• return

Business as usual is used to describe normal activity. It’s sometimes used in a mocking or critical way to refer to chaotic situations that have come to be expected as the norm.

I predict a big day for looking at Twitter and screaming. So, pretty much business as usual.

— Joe Berkowitz (@JoeBerkowitz)

How are most people with kids handling trick or treating? Business as usual or have you altered your plans?

— Jody Smith (@JodySmithNFL)

I forget sometimes that with a Cat 2 hurricane about to hit New Orleans and the rest of Southeast Louisiana… that it’s business as usual across the rest of the country.

Kinda like Mardi Gras day… except not as fun.

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez)

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Is business as usual used correctly in the following sentence?��

Despite a horde of kittens invading the store, it was business as usual and the employees acted as if the fuzzy trespassers weren’t there.