affair

Definition

Examples

The minister discussed the affairs of the nation with the committee.

Synonyms

• mattera vaguely specified concern
• businessa commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
• eventsomething that happens at a given place and time

Collocations

• Easy family affair
  describing family affair (a social unit living together)
• Medium handle financial affairs
  to manage, deal with, or operate regarding financial affairs
• Hard corporate affairs department director
  describing corporate affairs department director (of or belonging to a corporation)
• Very Hard deplorable state of affairs
  describing deplorable state of affairs (bad; unfortunate)