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AFFAIRS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transactions of professional or public interest
Example:
great affairs of state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("affairs" is a kind of...):
dealing; dealings; transaction (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affairs"):
international affairs; world affairs (affairs between nations)
politics (the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Matters of personal concern
Example:
get his affairs in order
Synonyms:
affairs; personal business; personal matters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("affairs" is a kind of...):
concern (something that interests you because it is important or affects you)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affairs"):
dirty laundry; dirty linen (personal matters that could be embarrassing if made public)
Context examples:
Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Assembling tax records, business affairs, or papers.
(FAQ-NACC Version - Assemble, NCI Thesaurus)
Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Assembling tax records, business affairs, or papers.
(FAQ - Assemble, NCI Thesaurus)
Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Show an interest in his/her personal affairs such as his/her finances and written correspondence?
(DAD - Show an Interest in Personal Affairs such as Finances and Written Correspondence, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition of a document indicating its relative position or state of affairs in relation to other documents and/or activities, especially in regard to document processing.
(Document Status, NCI Thesaurus)
“I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I remember that during our short visit we found the vicar garrulous, but his lodger strangely reticent, a sad-faced, introspective man, sitting with averted eyes, brooding apparently upon his own affairs.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I hate the sight of that sharp-pointed snout of his, which he wants to be ever poking into my affairs.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This instrument contains 6 areas which include memory, orientation, judgment and problem solving, community affairs, home and hobbies, and personal care.
(Clinical Dementia Rating Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) Community affairs.
(CDR - Community Affairs, NCI Thesaurus)
However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
