big business

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big business

Commercial operations organized and financed on a large scale: clashes between labor and big business.

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big business

(Commerce) large commercial organizations collectively, esp when considered as exploitative or socially harmful

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big′ busi′ness

large commercial and financial firms considered as a group.

[1900–05, Amer.]

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big business - commercial enterprises organized and financed on a scale large enough to influence social and political policies; "big business is growing so powerful it is difficult to regulate it effectively"

business sector, business - business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree"

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big business

n (large organizations) → la grande industria; (profitable activity) → un'attività redditizia
pop music is big business → la musica pop è un grosso affare

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It's all big business now, an' we're the small potatoes.

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He is taking up his work--rubber--it is a big business. I gather he is launching out rather.

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She has made big business to run more smoothly than little business did, half a century ago.

This was the era of big business. It was an autumn period, in which the telephone men and the public began to reap the fruits of twenty years of investment and hard work.

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Miss Bunthorne, whom Bert particularly affected, could not ride, and so with some difficulty he hired a basket- work trailer from the big business of Wray's in the Clapham Road.

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He's got a big business. My father's rich, you bet!"

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NW Regional chairman Chris Manka said: "For far too long, some big businesses have been allowed to get away with poor behaviour that has seen them use their dominant position to bully and squeeze small firms.

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The lobbying of politicians by big business is glaringly evident today.

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Basing his work on the recent findings of scholars in many European countries and the US, Pauwels explains how Hitler gained and held the support of powerful business interests who found the well-liked one-party fascist government, ready and willing to protect the property and profits of big business. He documents the role of the many multinationals in business today who supported Hitler and gained from the Nazi government's horrendous measures.

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"I will not give it to the big business. Kasi Boracay can only take so much waste.

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'It is unfortunate that all economic policies of the government are for the benefit of big business while the middle class, professionals and working classes are made to suffer and reel under the yolk of direct and indirect taxes and price hike', he added