| 单词 | big business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbig business big business n. originally U.S. large commercial organizations, now esp. multinational corporations, collectively; the leaders or controlling executives of these organizations, the ‘captains of industry’. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > large or powerful company > collectively big business1905 big tech1998 1905 F. C. Howe City p. ix We are beginning to realize that the same self-interest is the politics of big business. 1913 T. Roosevelt Autobiogr. App. A 615 We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. 1922 J. M. Murry Things we Are 23 Mr. Thomson, whom nature had modelled after the physical pattern of the dour American big-business man. 1930 G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 22 The political encroachments of big business. 1997 Times 5 Mar. 29/2 America has always admired its small-town heroes prepared to take on Big Business and Mr Wilner is leading the fight against the tobacco companies. 2007 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 19 Feb. 17 Police are also talking to big business about measures to reduce its vulnerability to cash-in-transit robberies. < as lemmas |
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