His three sector heads essentially run their own separate businesses.

Google said it would continue to run Mobility as a separate business.

Dividends would be paid based on the performance of each separate business.

"They have traditionally been run as separate businesses, but now there is support in the company to change that," he said.

A profit center is a section of a company treated as a separate business.

As is often the case in the music industry, the publishing arm and record label are very separate businesses.

All the men and women, going on their separate businesses.

We have two phone lines that separate business from chaff.

"The trend among clients is to consider media as a separate business."

The company had already expanded beyond it into about a dozen separate businesses.