Word Finder - affair

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(often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

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a difficult affair to manage

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• concern
• matter

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Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.

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an affair of honor, a duel;  an affair of love, an intrigue

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An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

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A material object (vaguely designated).

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He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car.

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An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).

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A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).

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A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.

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A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.

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The (male or female) genitals.

It is your affair, not mine.

Maybe she was having an affair with the butcher.

The entire affair was a damn soap opera.

The affair of the games has an important bearing on his date.

Come, you must own that this affair of the Thabor Bridge is delightful!

She was having an affair with her boss.

Did Bordeaux actually love her or was it a contrived affair to get her back to the ranch?

The affair did not turn out as the minister wished.

Some other officers, who had seen the whole affair, cried out to the captain, Shame!

She can't make up her mind whether you're having an affair with me or hiding something.

You're having an affair, aren't you?

Ginger had—maybe is still having—an affair with her husband's brother, and if she isn't sleeping with their attorney it isn't because neither isn't trying.

His conduct of the Government during the campaign was also severely blamed, as he acted as though the war were merely an affair of internal politics and party combinations.

Fred O'Connor had arranged the affair and Dean had reluctantly agreed to subject himself to the scrutiny of the cream of the town's lady folk.

That affair was the same thing as this soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and always dragging it in one direction.

While Dean was fully exonerated from any wrongdoing in the unfortunate affair, either Fitzgerald failed to agree with the determination or simply despised being judged wrong.

This affair however was of little more than local importance, and the Young Turks were not directly concerned in it.

If not, as the demand was booked against an infantry regiment, there will be a row and the affair may end badly.

It seemed to Pierre that it was his duty to conceal the whole affair and re-establish Natasha's reputation.

After all, he had accused her of having an affair with Josh.

It was a solemn affair and they spent most of the afternoon talking to people she had never met.

Prince Vasili had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw this bone--a bill for thirty thousand rubles--to the poor princess that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of the inlaid portfolio.

But if he won't--that's his affair, said Marya Dmitrievna, looking for something in her reticule.

Perhaps you have heard of that affair with the proclamation.

While his treaty with Lord Lyons in 1862 for the suppression of the slave trade conceded to England the right of search to a limited extent in African and Cuban waters, he secured a similar concession for American war vessels from the British government, and by his course in the Trent Affair he virtually committed Great Britain to the American attitude with regard to this right.

After the affair of the Champ de Mars (July 17th, 1791) a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he went into hiding.

The romance of his love affair with Sarah Curran - who afterwards married Robert Henry Sturgeon, an officer distinguished in the Peninsular War - has cast a glamour over the memory of Robert Emmet; and it inspired Thomas Moore's well-known songs, "She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps," and "Oh, breathe not his name"; it is also the subject of Washington Irving's "The Broken Heart."

Soon after the Canudos affair a conspiracy was hatched to assassinate the president.

On the 21st of January 1785 she announced that the queen would buy the necklace, but that not wishing to treat directly, she left the affair to a high personage.

The franchise, again, was an internal affair, in which the convention gave Great Britain no right to interfere, while if Great Britain relied on certain definite breaches of the convention, satisfaction for which was sought in the first place in such a guarantee of amendment as the Uitlander franchise would involve, the Boer answer was an offer of arbitration, a course which Great Britain could not accept without admitting the South African Republic to the position of an equal.

By methods of the same character as those subsequently employed against himself by Cavallotti, he carried on the violent agitation known as the Lobbia affair, in which sundry conservative deputies were, on insufficient grounds, accused of corruption.

And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole affair public.

You say the affair was decisive?

It was evident that the affair so lightly begun could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of men's will.

After the affair at Ostrovna he was brought into notice, received command of an hussar battalion, and when a brave officer was needed he was chosen.

The new Beaumont hotel was all a glitter in preparation of an affair of some high social order and there was a general excitement everywhere.

Were you having an affair with him?

The first collision with the English occurred in 1775, arising from a disputed succession to the peshwaship. The English government at Bombay supported one of the claimants, and the affair became critical for the English as well as for the Mahrattas.

Repeated appeals had been sent to the West from the beginning of the Egyptian affair (1163) onwards; while in 1184-1185 a great mission, on which the patriarch of Jerusalem and the masters of the Templars and the Hospitallers were all present, came to France and England, and offered the crown of Jerusalem to Philip Augustus and Henry II.

The man who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw himself on a sofa with his face to the wall.

He saw Karay seize the wolf, and checked his horse, supposing the affair to be over.

He was in very good spirits; the affair with the purchaser was going on satisfactorily, and there was nothing to keep him any longer in Moscow, away from the countess whom he missed.

Mom told me that Dad forgave her for her affair with Señor Medena.

This affair resulted in an important bu litical change, for the Piedmontese deputies, hitherto the th Llwarks of moderate conservatism, now shifted to the Left or 3rf nstitutional opposition.

The affair of Mentana caused considerable excitement throughout Europe, and the Roman question entered on an acute stage.

But if the bishop think the evidence insufficient, the affair shall be referred to the emperor, by way of appeal both from bishop and judge.

Causes could be evoked to the tsar himself, " when any partiality of the judges in any affair in which they themselves were interested was discovered" (ib.).

Herodotus describes the festival of Bubastis, which was attended by thousands from all parts of Egypt and was a very riotous affair; it has its modern equivalent in the Moslem festival of the sheikh Said el Badawi at Tanta.

That in the better times of the aristocracy nobility was not uncommonly granted to worthy persons, that in its worse times it was more commonly sold to unworthy persons, was the affair of the aristocratic body itself.

The affair ended by his escaping to Switzerland, where Sophie joined him; they then went to Holland, where he lived by hackwork for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for rapt et vol, and in May 1777 he was seized by the French police, and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes.