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Personal business   /pˈərsɪnɪl bˈɪznəs/   Listen
Personal business

noun
1.
Matters of personal concern.  Synonyms: affairs, personal matters.





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... handful of pupils. Aside from matters of discipline, the administration of the school was scarcely a problem. General superintendents, associate superintendents, compulsory attendance laws, card index systems, and purchasing departments were unknown. The school was a simple, personal business conducted by the teacher in very much the same way that the corner grocer conducted his store—on ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing
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... tone of his earnest voice that melted for a moment even Selah Briggs's pride and vehemence. It was very impertinent of him to try and interfere with her purely personal business, no doubt, but he seemed to do so in a genuinely kindly rather than in a fussy interfering spirit. At any rate he didn't begin by talking to her that horrid cant about the attempt to commit suicide being so extremely wicked! If he had done that, Selah would have felt it was ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
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... fashion; he belonged only to the best clubs, where he unbent more than anywhere else; he was credited with knowing a good deal more than he would tell. It was believed, in fact, that he had a great deal of influence. The President had been known to send for him on delicate personal business with regard to appointments, and there were certain ticklish diplomatic transactions that he was known to have managed most cleverly. His friends could see his hand in state papers. This he disclaimed, but he never denied that he knew the ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
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Words linked to "Personal business" :   concern, dirty laundry, dirty linen


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