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af·fair Listen to audioˈfeɚ/ noun
plural af·fairs
1 affairs [plural] : work or activities done for a purpose : commercial, professional, public, or personal business
The group conducts its affairs [=business] in private. We were told to arrange/settle our affairs. = We were told to put our affairs in order. handling/managing someone else's affairs They seem to be quite pleased with the current/present state of affairs. [=situation] She's the company's director of public affairs. [=the person who manages a company's relationship with the public] She's an expert in foreign affairs. [=events and activities that involve foreign countries] world/international affairs [=events and activities that involve different nations] After the war, the government focused on its own domestic affairs. They accused the U.S. of interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.
2 [count] : a matter that concerns or involves someone
This has nothing to do with you. It's not your affair. [=business, concern] = It's none of your affair. [=business] How I choose to live is my affair, not yours.
3 [count] : a secret sexual relationship between two people : love affair
adulterous/extramarital affairs between married men and single womenoften used in the phrase have an affair She divorced her husband after she discovered that he was having an affair.often + with She had an affair with a coworker.
4 [count] a : a social event or activity
He wants to make their wedding day an affair to remember. [=a special event] a simple/elaborate affair We were invited to a black-tie affair [=a party in which men wear tuxedos and women wear fancy dresses] at the governor's mansion.
b : an event or series of events that usually involves well-known people
the famous hostage affair of the late 1970s The public has shown little interest in the whole affair.often used with proper names the Iran-Contra affair [=scandal]
5 [count] informal : something made or produced : an object or thing
The only bridge across the river was a flimsy affair of ropes and rotten wood.

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