'business absorbed' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a business that has either taken over another business or taken something on. For example: 'The small family-run business was absorbed by a larger corporation.'.
A month later, Google's hardware business absorbed Nest, which makes smart home appliances and previously functioned as a separate subsidiary.
As this side of the business absorbed more and more of his energies, the final separation of publisher and bookseller came about, though never so decisively as that between bookseller and printer.
But Pharmacia, uninterested in the agriculture business, absorbed Monsanto's Searle drug division, swiping drugs from Monsanto's pockets that include the arthritis blockbuster Celebrex, which made $1.8 billion in 1998, and a little-known ulcer medication called misoprostal, without which the abortion pill RU-486 doesn't work.
After denying television for many years, the Business absorbed it and the movies survived.
When video came along, executives ignored it until it could not be ignored anymore and the Business absorbed it.
After the latter business absorbed the North West Company in 1821, the major operations at the Spokane House were eventually shifted north to Fort Colville, reducing the post's significance.
Mr Osborne added that cuts in corporation tax would help big business absorb the extra costs while he would cut national insurance contributions for small firms.
There are two choices - let the business absorb the cost resulting in a reduced margin or passing it onto the consumer via increased retail prices.
Businesses absorb all the costs.
Without businesses absorbing the costs themselves, a VAT rise on far-flung Greek islands could see the price of holiday packages rise by approximately 10%, according to Michael Arghyrou, reader in economics at Cardiff University.
Businesses absorb higher labor costs, they argue, through reduced turnover, greater employee productivity and some price increases passed on to consumers.
