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big business

Noun

Meaning

commercial enterprises organized and financed on a scale large enough to influence social and political policies

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The Internet is the Viagra of big business. Jack Welch

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. Walter Lippmann

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business. Isaac Leib Peretz

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa. Paul A. Baran

It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. Jean Chrétien

We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself he given a square deal. Theodore Roosevelt

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