"prevent business" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe any action that disrupts or stops a business from operating normally. For example: "The pandemic has prevented many businesses from operating at full capacity."
Worse, we had the power to say no and therefore prevent business from being done.
It established an agency the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—with sweeping authority to prevent business practices that would lead to monopoly.
We will review and remove the obstacles that prevent business from investing in energy-efficient technologies.... Conservation does not mean doing without.
The ban was intended to prevent business people from exceeding the $4,950 contribution limits by making donations as individuals as well as through companies that they controlled.
That explains the dreaded Saturday-night stopover requirement, designed to prevent business travellers who may not want to spend a weekend away from home from travelling on the cheap.
Moreover, the State Education Department, which regulates medical services, requires companies selling such services for a profit to be run by doctors, to prevent business interests to influence medical decisions.
Such due diligence processes are intended to prevent business-related human rights abuses.
Restrictions on employing migrants and on land ownership prevent businesses from expanding.
American Express will be able to prevent businesses from pushing customers toward competing credit cards after all.
Giving councils full powers over the business rate proper – currently a national tax – would allow them to vary the levy and prevent businesses going under.
"We're not in the business of selling ads through people's photos and we want to prevent businesses having free rein over users," he said.
