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BIG BUSINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does big business mean?
• BIG BUSINESS (noun)
The noun BIG BUSINESS has 1 sense:
1. commercial enterprises organized and financed on a scale large enough to influence social and political policies
Familiarity information: BIG BUSINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commercial enterprises organized and financed on a scale large enough to influence social and political policies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
big business is growing so powerful it is difficult to regulate it effectively
Hypernyms ("big business" is a kind of...):
business; business sector (business concerns collectively)
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