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Definition of Big business
1. Noun. 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"
Definition of Big business
1. Noun. (alternative form of big business) ¹
2. Noun. (sometimes capitalized) Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Big Business
Literary usage of Big business
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America to Japan: A Symposium of Papers by Representative Citizens of the by Lindsay Russell (1915)
"... THE MESSAGE OF big business BY JOSEPH IC CLARKE Editor, Special Correspondent
SENTIMENT is not implied in matters of trade, ..."
2. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Charles Kenneth Leith, Ralph Henry Hess, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"—'big business,' if you please—is winning such victories in the largest and wisest
use of our mineral resources that its public-service nature is becoming ..."
3. The New Nation by Frederic Logan Paxson (1915)
"CHAPTER XVIII big business THE panic of 1893 ended the first period of the trust
problem. The preceding years had been years of formation aud experiment. ..."
4. American Ideals by Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson (1917)
"demand is that big business give the people a square deal and that the people
give a square deal to any man engaged in big business who honestly endeavors ..."
5. Problems of American Democracy by Ray Osgood Hughes (1922)
"Dangers in big business. — Not all the results of large production are necessarily
beneficial ... The tremendous financial power of big business is a source ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"For big business, the centre of all economic life was prices; for Labor, ...
big business owed much to government aid, such as protective tar ill's. ..."
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