big business
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.31 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The man in the sandwich board was railing against big business and big government."
- "Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. . . . "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government.""
- "In an uncharacteristic rebuff to big business, President Carlos Saul Menem plans this week to propose a package of labor regulations that leaves intact most Government-mandated severance benefits and limits companies' right to hire part-time workers."
- "That smacks of cozy dealings between the government and the tycoons . . . . "Invariably, people see this as a conspiracy between the government and big business," says legislator Alan Leong."
- "In those days, cotton mills were big business around here, and so was tanning of hides."