affair : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989
  VA.
  

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• noun a gay festivity
  blowout; gala; jamboree.
  

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• noun affairs between nations
  international affairs.
  
  • you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television

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• noun a relationship between two lovers
  romance.
  

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• noun a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
  businessman.
  

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• noun a master's degree in questions of public concern
  

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• noun the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs
  
  • Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• noun the position of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs
  
  • the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs was created in 1989

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Self`-af*fairs" noun plural

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1. One's own affairs; one's private business. Obs. Shak.

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• noun a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship
  social gathering.
  

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• noun the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
  situation.
  
  • the present international situation is dangerous
  • wondered how such a state of affairs had come about
  • eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt

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• noun affairs between nations
  international affairs.
  
  • you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television

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