big business
noun
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
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.
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All of those hours of manual cross-platform searches and spreadsheet wrangling have kept prospecting slow and turned big business decisions into analytic leaps of faith, which were, at best, latched to third-party intel.
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Albert Lie, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
The charity received its shares in Figma over the summer from Evan Wallace, the company's elusive cofounder, a source familiar with the matter told Fortune.
Interestingly, the Marin Community Foundation is itself the product of a previous generation of big business.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025
Health care has evolved from a profession into big business.
—Robert D. Greenberg, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2025
Crete United primarily serves commercial and light industrial clients, with roughly 85% of its business coming from service and repair work for big businesses like Wells Fargo and Novant Health.
—Charlotte Observer, 28 July 2025
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Albert Lie, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
The charity received its shares in Figma over the summer from Evan Wallace, the company's elusive cofounder, a source familiar with the matter told Fortune.
Interestingly, the Marin Community Foundation is itself the product of a previous generation of big business.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025
Health care has evolved from a profession into big business.
—Robert D. Greenberg, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2025
Crete United primarily serves commercial and light industrial clients, with roughly 85% of its business coming from service and repair work for big businesses like Wells Fargo and Novant Health.
—Charlotte Observer, 28 July 2025
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“Big business.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20business. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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