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Affair
AFFA'IR, n. [L. facere. The primary sense of facio is to urge, drive, impel.]
1. Business of any kind; that which is done, or is to be done; a word of very indefinite and undefinable signification. In the plural, it denotes transactions in general; as human affairs; political or ecclesiastical affairs: also the business or concerns of an individual; as, his affairs are embarrassed.
2. Matters; state; condition of business or concerns.
I have sent that ye may know our affairs. Eph 6.
3. In the singular, it is used for a private dispute, or duel; as, an affair of honor; and sometimes a partial engagement of troops.
In the phrase, at the head of affairs, the word means, the public concerns of executing the laws and administering the government.
affair appears in definitions for these words:
Abbot Account Adjust Adjutant Administer Administration Administrator Admiral Admonish Adultery Affair Affect Afloat After-clap Aiddecamp Amoret Amour Aspect Association Attend Avocation Backwards Bad Ban Basilisk Basket Bastard Be Blessed Break Brief Bucolic Business Busy Busy-body By-concernment Cabirian Cadi Caltrop Canon Captain Captainship Censure Chamber Charge Chinse Civic College Communication Company Complicate Concern Concernment Concurrent Conduct Confirmation Conge Conjuncture Consociation Construction Consulage Conversion Convocation Cotquean Council Countermine Covenant Credible Crisis Curator Dark Deal Deanery Derange Devolve Diet Difficulty Direct Direction Director Discipline Disclaim Discretion Disentangle Disinterested Dispatch Distraction Domestic Domestically Double-tongued Drops Druid Ecclesiastic Economy Emancipate Embark Embarked Embarrass Employ Enemy Engage Entangle Eventful Except Experience Flying-party Folk Folkmote Forbear Forlorn Friarly Furlow Gentile Georgic Government Grossly Guard Guard-room Guide Guy Haircloth Halt Hama Handsome Head Heavy Home House Household Housewifely Husbandry Ill Immersion Impolicy Incapability Incident Independent Infantry Inspection Intercourse Intermeddle Interview Intrigue Invidious It Jobber Junto Knot Lieutenant Life Lodgment Look Looker Love-monger Magnitude Major Majority Maladministration Manage Management Marine Maritime Matter Meddle Meddlesome Meddlesomeness Meddling Minister Ministry Mischief Misgovernment Mismanage Mismanagment Mutter Mythology Navals Neck Nose Of Officious Officiousness Orach Order Orderly Parade Parliament Parol Part Party Pass-parole Passage Pavilion Pecuniary Pert Perturbation Place Plug Policy Political Portfolio Posture Practicability Pragmatic Pram Prattling Prejudicial Presentative Press Proctor Procuration Procurator Prospective Provisor Prudently Pull Qualification Quarter Ranging Reconcile Reconnoiter Reduce Regiment Regularly Republic Reserve Retreat Retrenchment Return Revelly Reverse Review Right Roster Ruffle Rule Run Salute Sanhedrim Save Scout Secretary Secular Sentinel Sequester Sergeant Sinecure Skillfulness Sluttishness Smallness Smatter Spoliation Staff Stand State State-monger Statesman Stateswoman Stay Stich Supremacy Swift Syndic Take Temporal Tiddle Township Townsman Tranquillity Transaction Transmute Trifling Trivial Trouble Turbulence Turn Turnpike Ule Underwork Unhappy Union Unthriving Upon Vacant Vicar-general Vice-chancellor Vicissitude Vigil Volubility Voluntary Volunteer Walk War War-office Weighed Windy Wish Worldly
Abbot Account Adjust Adjutant Administer Administration Administrator Admiral Admonish Adultery Affair Affect Afloat After-clap Aiddecamp Amoret Amour Aspect Association Attend Avocation Backwards Bad Ban Basilisk Basket Bastard Be Blessed Break Brief Bucolic Business Busy Busy-body By-concernment Cabirian Cadi Caltrop Canon Captain Captainship Censure Chamber Charge Chinse Civic College Communication Company Complicate Concern Concernment Concurrent Conduct Confirmation Conge Conjuncture Consociation Construction Consulage Conversion Convocation Cotquean Council Countermine Covenant Credible Crisis Curator Dark Deal Deanery Derange Devolve Diet Difficulty Direct Direction Director Discipline Disclaim Discretion Disentangle Disinterested Dispatch Distraction Domestic Domestically Double-tongued Drops Druid Ecclesiastic Economy Emancipate Embark Embarked Embarrass Employ Enemy Engage Entangle Eventful Except Experience Flying-party Folk Folkmote Forbear Forlorn Friarly Furlow Gentile Georgic Government Grossly Guard Guard-room Guide Guy Haircloth Halt Hama Handsome Head Heavy Home House Household Housewifely Husbandry Ill Immersion Impolicy Incapability Incident Independent Infantry Inspection Intercourse Intermeddle Interview Intrigue Invidious It Jobber Junto Knot Lieutenant Life Lodgment Look Looker Love-monger Magnitude Major Majority Maladministration Manage Management Marine Maritime Matter Meddle Meddlesome Meddlesomeness Meddling Minister Ministry Mischief Misgovernment Mismanage Mismanagment Mutter Mythology Navals Neck Nose Of Officious Officiousness Orach Order Orderly Parade Parliament Parol Part Party Pass-parole Passage Pavilion Pecuniary Pert Perturbation Place Plug Policy Political Portfolio Posture Practicability Pragmatic Pram Prattling Prejudicial Presentative Press Proctor Procuration Procurator Prospective Provisor Prudently Pull Qualification Quarter Ranging Reconcile Reconnoiter Reduce Regiment Regularly Republic Reserve Retreat Retrenchment Return Revelly Reverse Review Right Roster Ruffle Rule Run Salute Sanhedrim Save Scout Secretary Secular Sentinel Sequester Sergeant Sinecure Skillfulness Sluttishness Smallness Smatter Spoliation Staff Stand State State-monger Statesman Stateswoman Stay Stich Supremacy Swift Syndic Take Temporal Tiddle Township Townsman Tranquillity Transaction Transmute Trifling Trivial Trouble Turbulence Turn Turnpike Ule Underwork Unhappy Union Unthriving Upon Vacant Vicar-general Vice-chancellor Vicissitude Vigil Volubility Voluntary Volunteer Walk War War-office Weighed Windy Wish Worldly
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