noun
- A vaguely specified concern.
- usage: "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
- A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.
- A vaguely specified social event.
- usage: "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
- synonyms: affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function
- Matters of personal concern.
- usage: "get his affairs in order"
- synonyms: personal business, personal matters
- Transactions of professional or public interest.
- usage: "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"
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