| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
Synonyms: |
assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
Synonyms: |
affaire, amour, carrying on, extracurricular activity, fling, goings-on, hanky-panky, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, playing around, relationship, rendezvous, romance, thing together, two-timing |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | party or celebration |
Synonyms: |
do, entertainment, function, gathering, reception, shindig, soiree |
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
Synonyms: |
affair, carrying on, cheating, extracurricular activity, fling, fornication, hanky-panky, immorality, infidelity, matinee, playing around, relationship, thing*, two-timing |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness |
| Main Entry: | amour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | romance |
Synonyms: |
affair, entanglement, liaison, love, love affair, passion, relationship |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | assignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clandestine meeting |
Synonyms: |
affair, appointment, date, engagement, heavy date, illicit meeting, love nest, one-night stand, quickie, rendezvous, secret meeting, tryst |
| Main Entry: | binge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spree |
Synonyms: |
affair, bender, blind*, bout*, carousal, compotation, drunk*, fling, jag, orgy, toot |
Antonyms: |
saving |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
Synonyms: |
affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trading, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal concern |
Synonyms: |
affair, assignment, beeswax, carrying on, duty, function, goings-on, hanky-panky, happening, interest, issue, lookout, matter, palaver, point, problem, question, responsibility, subject, task, topic |
| Main Entry: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
Synonyms: |
Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |