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Affairs   /əfˈɛrz/   Listen
Affairs

noun
1.
Matters of personal concern.  Synonyms: personal business, personal matters.
2.
Transactions of professional or public interest.  "Great affairs of state"


Affair

noun
1.
A vaguely specified concern.  Synonyms: matter, thing.  "It is none of your affair" , "Things are going well"
2.
A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.  Synonyms: affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison.
3.
A vaguely specified social event.  Synonyms: function, occasion, social function, social occasion.  "An occasion arranged to honor the president" , "A seemingly endless round of social functions"



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"Affairs" Quotes from Famous Books



... vaguely. In reality she took no interest whatever in her husband's affairs so long as she got what money ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... Royal favour from the King of Sweden, who sent him a splendid full-length portrait of himself, which was forwarded with the following letter from the late highly respected Count Wetterstedt, then Minister for Foreign Affairs ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross
... exhibition important in the art world, or at least in the official life of London. Everybody who was somebody was there. I saw the Princess of Wales and the Marquis of Salisbury, who was then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I saw Mr. Balfour, so handsome and gracious that I refused to believe there had ever been cause to call him "Bloody Balfour." There was something kingly about him—yet he was simply Mr. Balfour. Years afterward I realized that to know Mr. Balfour is ...
— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown
... not have anything to do with them, and ignore them altogether. You were always different and took my part, I must say, and I have never forgotten it, and it was therefore very strange to have you assuming that lofty tone, and interfering in my private affairs. For that is what it comes to, Tom, however you may try to disguise it and make out that it was a different matter. I do not wish to be unfriendly with you, as if you were no better than the other Starbrows; and I should be so glad ...
— Fan • Henry Harford
... are all better informed in regard to the affairs of the peninsula than any three other men I could find if I were to search for them here and in England," added ...
— Across India - Or, Live Boys in the Far East • Oliver Optic


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