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- Dictionaryaffair/əˈfɛː/
noun
- 1. an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to: "the board admitted responsibility for the affair" Similar
- 2. a sexual relationship between two people, one or both of whom are married to someone else: "his wife is having an affair" Similar
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AFFAIR definition: 1. a situation or subject that is being dealt with or considered: 2. a matter or situation that…. Learn more.
affair. noun. af· fair ə-ˈfer. Synonyms of affair. 1. affairs plural : commercial, professional, public, or personal business. handles the company's public affairs. an expert in foreign affairs. b. : matter, concern. How I choose to live is my affair, not yours. 2. : a procedure, action, or occasion only vaguely specified.
1. singular noun B2. If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair. The government has mishandled the whole affair. The affair began when customs officials inspected a convoy of 60 tankers.
An affair is a specific event. You can use affair as a kind of shorthand, to mean "that big mess," or "that complicated story I already told you about." Your affair can also mean your responsibility or job, like if your grandmother said, "I don't care about balloons for the party — that's your affair."
1. a thing to be done or attended to; matter; business: this affair must be cleared up. 2. an event or happening: a strange affair. 3. (qualified by an adjective or descriptive phrase) something previously specified, esp a man-made object; thing: our house is a tumbledown affair.
[countable] a sexual relationship between two people, usually when one or both of them are already in a relationship with somebody else. She was having an affair with a co-worker. an extramarital affair. It's the story of a secret affair between a married teacher and her teenage student. see also love affair. Wordfinder. Extra Examples.
a sexual relationship between two people when one or both of them is married to someone else: He's been having an affair with a woman at work. be sb's affair. If something is your affair, it is private and you do not want anyone else to be involved or know about it. See also. love affair.
What does the noun affair mean? There are 22 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun affair, eight of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the noun affair? About 60 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency.
AFFAIR meaning: 1 : work or activities done for a purpose commercial, professional, public, or personal business; 2 : a matter that concerns or involves someone
a special function, business, or duty: That's none of your affair. an intense amorous relationship, usually of short duration. an event or happening that occasions or arouses notoriety, dispute, and often public scandal; incident: the Congressional bribery affair.
