"a business connection" is an acceptable phrase and can be used in written English.
For example, "Developing a business connection with partners across the country has helped us to expand our reach."
Initially it was a business connection but then we got to know each other.
It turns out he had a business connection to Mr. Murdoch.
The TV companies' anger is focused on Dish, a satellite company that has a business connection with Mr Slim, by far the country's most powerful tycoon.
The current definition of "independent" allows former fund executives, their families and anyone with a business connection to the fund company to qualify.
Critics say it must have been superficial, and they are furious that the deliberations behind the decision are classified.Inevitably, too, there is a business connection to the Bush administration.
He and Mr. Lauda had some 30 or 40 dinners together, Mr. Morgan recalled, always in the same Vienna restaurant where because of a business connection Mr. Lauda could eat free.
When a Hashable user meets a potential business connection, the e-mail address or Twitter username of that person is noted along with the location of the meeting, and that information is then sent to other friends and business colleagues using the application.
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The purchase was based chiefly on his desire to establish a new business connection within commuting distance of his home in Summit, N.J.
Weinstein and Bloom had a previous business connection, as the film executive and Jay-Z are developing her book about Trayvon Martin into a miniseries.
Upon taking office as deputy in 2017, Bernhardt pledged to recuse himself for as long as two years, or until mid-August this year, on decisions involving 22 firms and individuals with which he had a former business connection.
