Definitions for Affairs
Af·fairs

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. personal business, personal matters, affairs(noun)

   matters of personal concern

   "get his affairs in order"

2. affairs(noun)

   transactions of professional or public interest

   "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Affairs' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1378

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Affairs' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3847

Anagrams for Affairs »

1. raffias

How to pronounce Affairs?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say Affairs in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Affairs in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Affairs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Affairs in a Sentence

1. Anne Marrin:

   Chris Covelli, a Lake County Sheriff’s Office detective, told FoxNews.com. On Sept. 1, 2015, Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz radioed in from a rural area of Fox Lake that Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was getting out of Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz cruiser to check on three suspicious men, two white and one black. A short while later Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was found shot to death, one bullet hitting Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz bulletproof vest, the other striking Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz below the vest, near Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz heart. Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz glasses and other belongings were found strewn around the swampy area, leading investigators to believe the officer engaged in some type of struggle. However, in a stunning twist, police discovered Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz carefully staged Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz suicide to look like murder. Investigators learned the corrupt cop apparently caved under the pressure of living a shocking double life for nearly two decades. It's unheard of in our profession that anyone would think to do something like that and it just shows the emotional state that he must have been in over all of this and knowing that we were getting closer to finding out what was really going on, said Fox Lake Administrator, Anne Marrin. According to investigators, Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz embezzled tens of thousands of dollars from the Fox Lake Explorer program, the' police academy for teens' Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was hailed as a hero for managing for years. Police say Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz used the money for vacations, car repairs and even adult websites. It was also discovered Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz had extramarital affairs and arranged for Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz own mistress to marry Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz son in order to gain added military benefits. Perhaps the biggest bombshell was that Gliniewicz contacted a hit man to have Marrin murdered. It's crazy. I can't describe it any other way.

2. Police Chief Butch Ayers:

   (Bongiovanni) had the opportunity to tell us what happened in the report and when he was interviewed by internal affairs. He said nothing about a punch. In this case, what we saw on video, that punch was unreasonable and unnecessary.

3. John Kerry:

   I raised it immediately with the Iranians. It was not put out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the government directly, it was put out I think by the military over there, the (Revolutionary Guard), who is opposed to what we are doing. the challenge is three or four years ago, we wouldn't have known who to call ... and it could have grown into a major kind of hostage confrontation the way it had previously.

4. Sediq Sediqqi:

   Things have improved in (the Afghan Local Police) now. (The Ministry of Interior Affairs) is serious when it comes to evaluating and controlling ALP functions.

5. Harpers Bazaar.Khloé Kardashian:

   If there is one thing I regret when I was married, it was having multiple affairs with different women, that wasn't the stand-up thing to do. I wish I could have kept my d -- k in my pants.

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