affairs
- noun
- /əˈfɛrz/
- Many people struggle to keep their financial affairs organized during tax season.
Most men now men have affairs for love and affection.
- Most men now men have affairs for love and affection.
- One, we talk about emotional affairs or any kind of affair.
- He has a few interesting love affairs, most most of which don't really go that well.
- That's what most people do is they rearrange their, their business affairs so as to minimise tax.
- You've got to understand human souls, human affairs.
- And you have to then the next two months is spent just unwinding your worldly affairs, right?
- Then Hunter took all of that money and spent it on his personal affairs.
- For people who are having exit affairs, proceed cautiously.
- So today's theme is a little bit cheating affairs, juicy drama.
- There, there there are many motivations for affairs, revenge.
- I had another affair, I had another child.
- And if you believed in, like, cheap affairs, then that was my angle.
Examples
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SO LOOK YOU MIND YOUR OWN AFFAIRS.
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Each house conducts its affairs in business like manner before the freshman quizzes.
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As I go about my daily affairs, I listen to my own guidance.
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As I go about my daily affairs, I listen to my own guidance.
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Having a household, managing your affairs, trying to grow your place.
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But in all affairs, you can proceed without conventional approval.
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Your work is so important and vital and I wish you the best with this book and and all your affairs at your service, my friend.
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That's what most people do is they rearrange their, their business affairs so as to minimise tax.
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I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP INTERFERING IN MY AFFAIRS.
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It is essential to manage your personal affairs to maintain a balanced life.
Synonyms
Private things about someone's life, like family or health issues
Private matters that concern only you
Antonyms
Idioms
- Formal
Arrange your personal, money, and legal matters before illness or death
Compounds
Matters and relations between countries about politics, trade, or diplomacy
A part of the United States government that gives benefits and services to military veterans
The person who leads the United States government department that helps people who used to be in the military
A university degree about government policy and running public services
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Affairs comes from the same old word faire, meaning 'to do' or 'business' (think of the simple idea 'things to be done'). That sense of 'one's business to manage' is why affairs can mean your personal or financial matters that you must organise.