business double

noun

, Bridge.

1. a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.

Example Sentences

“There’s been a shift in the consciousness of people 70 and over,” said Ann Lightfoot, a founder of Done & Done Home, a New York City home-organizing company that saw its business double in 2021, and an author of the forthcoming book, “Love Your Home Again.”

From Seattle Times

He's even got a clothing line coming out around his defunct bail bond business, Double D Bail Bonds.

From BBC

SimpleHealth had seen its business double amid the coronavirus pandemic.

From Salon

“You really have to have two sides of the brain to be a buyer, because so much of the work is financial and analytical. We have to grow our business double digits year on year. But the other side takes a lot of instinct, taste and creativity, because you’re the one setting the trends of what people are buying.”

From The Guardian

First rolled out to a limited numbers of clients in May 2018, it helped volumes in the bank’s algorithmic FX business double in 2018.

From Reuters