Definitions for affairs
af·fairs

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1. personal business, personal matters, affairsnoun

   matters of personal concern

   "get his affairs in order"

2. affairsnoun

   transactions of professional or public interest

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

Matched Categories

1. • Concern
   • Transaction

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

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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. Kevan Gosper:

   For a country as big and important in world affairs, let alone sport, as Russia, I would rather see a solution to what's been happening and a change of heart, a change of culture and a commitment to the future and still see them participate rather than be excluded, i think exclusion gets you nowhere. But it's up to the IAAF itself to make that judgment. They've got a very good process of investigation so I'll observe that and see what comes out of it.

2. Law Minster Anisul Huq:

   They submitted two petitions to the ministry of Home Affairs through the jail authority, and the ministry has now forwarded those to the Law, Justice and Parliamentary ministry.

3. Vladimir Putin:

   Interference with the domestic affairs of the United States -- do you really believe that someone acting from the Russian territory could have influenced the United States and influenced the choice of millions of Americans? this is utterly ridiculous.

4. William Kelly:

   I remember asking, before we began the statement, what I was being investigated for. And they told me that it was going to be for using a city email account for personal business. And then later on, they said it could possibly be something about conduct unbecoming, being in internal affairs, as a sergeant and as lieutenant, I knew that those weren't things that ended people's careers.

5. Adam Tooze:

   ...in practice the Reichsbank and the Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs had no intention of allowing the radical activists of the SA, the shopfloor militants of the Nazi party or Gauleiter commissioners to dictate the course of events. Under the slogan of “the strong state”, the ministerial bureaucracy fashioned a new national structure of economic regulation.

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