gesheft

Alternative Spellings

gescheft

Definitions

• business

Example Sentences

• Who knew that nursing homes would be such a good gesheft to get into?

Languages of Origin

Yiddish

Etymology

געשעפֿט

Who Uses This

Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements

Regions

North America, Great Britain

Dictionaries

Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).