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big business en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (capitalized, sometimes, uncountable) Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence.
    • 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. 1998 March 17, Clifford Krauss, “International Business: Argentine Labor Code Largely Intact”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Dec 2011:
    • 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. 2005 January 17, Chaim Estulin, “Hong Kong's New Culture”, in Time:
    • 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." 1940 March 18, “Life on the Newsfronts of the World: Big Government”, in Life, retrieved 13 Dec 2011, page 26:
  2. (uncountable) A large and vital economic sector.
    • In those days, cotton mills were big business around here, and so was tanning of hides.

Hyponyms

Big Three · big pharma · big tobacco · Big Four · big ag · big tech

Relateds

big labor · big government · big money

Translations (7)

ru большо́й би́знес (large corporations) · fi suuryritykset (large corporations) · sv storföretag (large corporations) · pl wielki świat biznesu (large corporations) · de Big Business (large corporations) · ka დიდი ბიზნესი (large corporations) · cmn 大公司 (large corporations)