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noun

anything done or to be done; anything requiring action or effort; business; concern: an affair of great importance.

affairs, matters of commercial or public interest or concern; the transactions of public or private business or finance: affairs of state; Before taking such a long trip you should put all your affairs in order.

an event or a performance; a particular action, operation, or proceeding: When did this affair happen?

thing; matter (applied to anything made or existing, usually with a descriptive or qualifying term): Our new computer is an amazing affair.

a private or personal concern; a special function, business, or duty: That's none of your affair.

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an intense amorous relationship, usually of short duration.

an event or happening that occasions or arouses notoriety, dispute, and often public scandal; incident: the Congressional bribery affair.

a party, social gathering, or other organized festive occasion: The awards ceremony is the biggest affair on the school calendar.

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Origin:
1250–1300; earlier affaire < French, Old French afaire for a faire to do, equivalent to a (< Latin ad to) + faire ≪ Latin facere; replacing Middle English afere < Old French

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Texas's top criminal court says a judge's affair with a prosecutor has no bearing on a capital trial.

Immediately thereupon, student falls enthusiastically into a torrid affair with professor.

His return to the headlines gives the affair a retro feel.

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Texas's top criminal court says a judge's affair with a prosecutor has no bearing on a capital trial.

Immediately thereupon, student falls enthusiastically into a torrid affair with professor.

His return to the headlines gives the affair a retro feel.

Her house survived, a one-story yellow brick affair with red shutters.

When members of international scientific projects meet, it's typically a mild affair.

For you see, my father had carried on a lifelong affair with the sea.

It's a blowout affair that includes an unlimited number of roasted ears for every participant.

The evolution of life has not been an orderly affair.

The wake of the affair will be a long one and no doubt in time its effects will lessen.

Temperatures in summer can soar, and soupy humidity can make long walks a wilting and steamy affair.

To drink alcohol or not, to abuse substances or not, to risk a marriage with an affair or not.

Even when both partners seem willing, males are often unable to consummate the affair.

It's an impressive, and surprisingly long, affair for its two-day development.

The three-minute song-and-video production is a fast-paced, colorful affair.

However, in contrast to those millions of years you speak of, professional therapy is a strange affair.

First off, a sense of patriotism compels us to keep this an all-American affair.

These and similar remarks reveal the true victims of this affair.

To hear him tell it, they're not always the violent affair you'd imagine.

Hillsdale president quits amid rumors of affair with his daughter-in-law.

The affair has provoked much agonised introspection.

Vision, it turns out, is a much more complex and sophisticated affair than anyone had imagined.

Hunting and processing these animals in this way must have coordinated affair involving the effort of a number of people.

But the whole affair turned out to be a hoax meant to promote its relaunch.

His dad turns out not to be his real dad and his mum is nice only because she is having an affair and doesn't want the kid to rat.

The affair has exposed both the reality of polygamy and the difficulty of doing anything about.

No solemn, somber affair for these kids, a pilgrimage is a big party.

Democracy is a loud, messy affair in which citizens seek to persuade others through logical arguments.

With no funding this is going to be a purely viral marketing affair.

The whole affair turned into a game of low-tech one-ups-manship.

Schick's earliest prototype for the electric shaver was a bulky, two-handed affair.

Glacier formation is a far more complex affair than glaciers melting away.

As the affair unfolded, what struck many observers wasn't the rally of detractors, the organized indignation.

Curie reacted to the sorry affair by throwing herself into her work.

Look at the amount of work that went into this whole affair.

In any case, given the financial picture, an online version would necessarily be a much-reduced affair.

Maybe the gay fella jumped as a result of being distraught about the affair itself.

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affair (əˈfɛə)

—n
1.	a thing to be done or attended to; matter; business: this affair must be cleared up
2.	an event or happening: a strange affair
3.	(qualified by an adjective or descriptive phrase) something previously specified, esp a man-made object; thing: our house is a tumbledown affair
4.	a sexual relationship between two people who are not married to each other

[C13: from Old French, from à faire to do]

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Word Origin & History

affair

c.1300, "what one has to do," from Anglo-Norm. afere, from O.Fr. afaire, from the infinitive phrase à faire "to do" (from L. ad "to" + facere "to do, make;" see factitious). A Northern word originally, brought into general use and given a Fr. spelling by Caxton

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(15c.). General sense of "vague proceedings" (in romance, war, etc.) first attested 1702. Affairs "ordinary business" first attested 1484.

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