AFFAIRS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

Credits

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.