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women's business en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) In Australian Indigenous culture: cultural practies which are the exclusive preserve of women, especially ceremonies which are only open to women.
    • We've been doing women's business all day. This too was women's business. If I couldn't trust an Elder, a healer, with my secrets, who could I? 2022, Annalise Ingham, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 53:
  2. (Australia, colloquial, humorous, uncountable) Subjects which women generally prefer to discuss amongst themselves rather than with men.