Lexic.us

Definition of Personal business

1. Noun. Matters of personal concern. "Get his affairs in order"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Personal Business

Literary usage of Personal business

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Workmen's Compensation: The Workmen's Compensation Act with by Samuel Alain Harper (1920)
"Acts of personal business or pleasure. To say that the employer is not responsible for accidents happening to the workman while he is performing some act in ..."

2. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"If belonging to the first class the general agent will consider his personal business of greatest importance and will select those prospective applicants ..."

3. A Treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Psychological Theory of by Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald (1887)
"Every rational Being ought to make it his , personal business to discover, or clearly know, -why he believes so and so—-as St. Paul says, " Let every man be ..."

4. Practical Rhetoric and Composition: A Complete and Practical Discussion of by Albert Newton Raub (1887)
"A personal business letter is one on personal or private business. Among personal business letters are included the letters of merchants, manufacturers, ..."

5. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"... personal business as the said business required, but was to hold himself in readiness to attend to the wants of any prospective customer of the ..."

6. Punctuation and Letter-writing: Containing, Also, the Rules for the Use of by Albert Newton Raub (1887)
"A personal business letter is one on personal or private business. Among personal business letters are included the letters of merchants, manufacturers, ..."

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