Meaning of big business | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence.
   capitalized, sometimes, uncountable
2. A large and vital economic sector.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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