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big business

noun

  1. large business, commercial, and financial firms taken collectively, especially when considered as a group having shared attitudes and goals and exercising control over economic policy, politics, etc.
  2. any large organization of a noncommercial nature resembling this.
  3. any large business enterprise.


big business

noun

  1. large commercial organizations collectively, esp when considered as exploitative or socially harmful


big business

  1. Large corporations , as opposed to small individually or family-owned businesses.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of big business1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

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Example Sentences

Escorting is big business on the straight side too, only more of a hush-hush operation.

Yet as mindfulness grows into big business, the cracks are beginning to show.

With its decades-long history of offering quickie hitches and divorces, marriage has long been a big business in Nevada.

The real losers were moderate-to-liberal Republicans who favored Wall Street and big business.

We learned about big business and how the big labels do it, and how it runs, a big machine.

This I know, he's well educated, has trained in big business and is used to good society.

Which shows again the importance of understanding the relationship of Superstition and Big Business!

He can't buy it; he hasn't the money to do a big business on, and a small coal business is a losing proposition.

He was a very agreeable man and told mother that he had a big business in the city.

The men whom he addressed were all recognized as organizers, all had been identified with big business.

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