big business

noun

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Examples: big business in a Sentence

Definition of big business

1 : an economic group consisting of large profit-making corporations especially with regard to their influence on social or political policy

2 : a very profitable enterprise

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Examples of big business in a Sentence

The tax proposal will be of most benefit to big business.
Tourism is big business in the region.

Recent Examples of big business from the Web

Sleep studies, the gold standard for diagnosing sleep disorders, are such big business that the number of accredited sleep centers across the nation has soared from 500 in 2000 to 2,600 today.

— sarah gantz, Philly.com, "The high cost of getting a good night's sleep," 6 June 2018
Amendment supporters like Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, say their real enemy was never Schlafly, but big business and insurance companies.

— aj willingham, CNN, "Only one more state needs to pass the Equal Rights Amendment to finally get it ratified. Here are the 13 that haven't," 31 May 2018
The general public increasingly mistrusts big business and economic elites, and for good reason.

— john benjamin, The New Republic, "Business Class," 14 May 2018
Prosecutors were quick to draw parallels between the two men and big business on Thursday, starting in opening arguments for their interstate racketeering trial.

— jane wester, charlotteobserver, "Jurors study Bloods' code, gang hierarchy on first day of accused Godfather's trial | Charlotte Observer," 3 May 2018
Treasury switches to severing their access to global markets Measures entangle world’s biggest businesses, financial groups The U.S. is taking sanctions against Russia to a new level.

— yuliya fedorinova, Bloomberg.com, "U.S. Sanctions Turn Putin Tycoons Into International Pariahs," 6 Apr. 2018
This is the peaceful tactic used on the internet to censor and suppress people who speak the truth and are not good for the financial, political … gains of the system and big businesses.

— aric jenkins, Fortune, "Suspected YouTube HQ Shooter 'Hated' the Company, Her Father Says," 4 Apr. 2018
Since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., everyone from parents and schools to state politicians and big businesses has been figuring out what to do about suburban mass shootings in America.

— jason johnson, The Root, "Congratulations, Georgia Has Practically Elected the 1st Black Woman as Governor in America!," 2 Mar. 2018
Either way, big lips are bigger business than ever – the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reported more than 28,000 lip augmentations were performed in the US in 2016 a whopping 53% increase since 2000.

— emily dudding, Harper's BAZAAR, "How To Get Bigger Lips," 26 July 2017

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