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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun affairs has 2 senses
- affairs(n = noun.cognition) personal business, personal matters - matters of personal concern; "get his affairs in order" is a kind of concern
- affairs(n = noun.act) Array - transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state" is a kind of dealing, dealings, transaction
has particulars: dirty laundry, dirty linen
has particulars: international affairs, world affairs, politics
THESAURUS
affairs
accord, activities, activity, addition, adjunct, affair, affiliation, affinity, alliance, approximation, assemblage, association, bag, bond, business, circumstances, closeness, combination, commerce, concern, concernment, concerns, condition of things, conditions, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, dealings, deduction, disjunction, doings, employ, employment, enterprise, filiation, function, goings-on, homology, intercourse, interest, intimacy, junction, labor, liaison, life, link, linkage, linking, lookout, march of events, matter, matters, mutual attraction, nearness, occupation, proceedings, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, run of things, service, similarity, state of affairs, sympathy, the times, the world, thing, tie, tie-in, undertaking, union, what happens, work
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