to mean business

Claimed synergies have rarely materialised in past pharmaceutical deals, but this time Pfizer seems to mean business: it plans to shed nearly 20,000 jobs.

过去的药品公司收购交易很少能真正实现所谓的协同增效，但这次辉瑞似乎要说到做到：公司计划削减20000个岗位。

The negative side of Henry Ford's statement, however, can be seen when the word business is taken to mean big business.

然而，当“商业”一词被理解为“大企业”时，我们就能理解亨利·福特这句话的负面含义。

Empowerment and delegation mean new forms of management control to ensure that the overall business plan is being followed, and that operations become more profitable under the new organization, rather than less.

授权和委托意味着新的管理控制形式，以确保全面的商业计划得到遵循，并且在新的组织下，业务变得更有利可图，而不是更少。