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affair Noun 1. an event or happening: the Irangate affair 2. a sexual relationship outside marriage 3. a thing to be done or attended to: my wife's career is her own affair 4. something previously specified: lunch was a subdued affair [Old French à faire to do]
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affair noun 1. matter, thing, business, question, issue, happening, concern, event, subject, project, activity, incident, proceeding, circumstance, episode, topic, undertaking, transaction, occurrence Translations (also: love affair) → aventura f amorosa; affairs (= business) → asuntos mpl; the Watergate affair → el asunto (de) Watergate affairs (= business); affaires (romance) (also: love affair) → Verhältnis nt; affairs npl → Geschäfte pl affairs npl (= business) → affari; the Watergate affair → il caso Watergate |
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| I understand that you have undertaken to act in this affair as an intermediary. Who now remembers this affair which caused so much ink to flow fifteen years ago? Rushworth was "that kind of woman"; foolish, vain, clandestine by nature, and far more attracted by the secrecy and peril of the affair than by such charms and qualities as he possessed. |
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