big business

noun

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.

any large organization of a noncommercial nature resembling this.

any large business enterprise.

Origin:
1900–05, Americanism

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big business

—n
	large commercial organizations collectively, esp when considered as exploitative or socially harmful

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big business definition

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

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Example sentences

Big business has been moving into silver-based antimicrobials for a long time

now.

Inevitably the measures are also a big business for consultants.

Laboratory-grown skin and cartilage are now a big business.

We are being manhandled, to a degree, by big business.

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"The point is that nationalism, even in its latest madhouse frenzies under Mussolini and Hitler, is still, like advertising, an arm of big business. Nations as we know them today, were the invention of business and it is natural that business should still consider itself slightly above patriotism and that the strongest international should still be the international of profits."

-John Dos Passos

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