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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | party or celebration |
| Synonyms: | do, entertainment, function, gathering, reception, shindig, soiree |
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, carrying on, cheating, extracurricular activity, fling, fornication, hanky-panky, immorality, infidelity, matinee, playing around, relationship, thing*, two-timing |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | romance |
| Synonyms: | affair, entanglement, liaison, love, love affair, passion, relationship |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | assignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clandestine meeting |
| Synonyms: | affair, appointment, date, engagement, heavy date, illicit meeting, love nest, one-night stand, quickie, rendezvous, secret meeting, tryst |
| Main Entry: | binge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spree |
| Synonyms: | affair, bender, blind*, bout*, carousal, compotation, drunk*, fling, jag, orgy, toot |
| Antonyms: | saving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal concern |
| Synonyms: | affair, assignment, beeswax, carrying on, duty, function, goings-on, hanky-panky, happening, interest, issue, lookout, matter, palaver, point, problem, question, responsibility, subject, task, topic |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
| Synonyms: | Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |
| Main Entry: | concern |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | affair, burden, care, charge, company, corporation, deportment, entanglement, enterprise, establishment, field, firm, house, interest, involvement, job, jungle*, matter, megacorp, mission, multinational, occupation, organization, outfit, shooting match, task, thing, transaction, worry, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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