affair

CEFRB1

/əˈfɛə/

noun

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An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

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Responsibility is my affair, reciprocity is his.
1992, Zygmunt Bauman, Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies, →ISBN, page 45
There are a number of issues external to the institution that can influence the fiscal management of student affairs.
2011, George S. McClellan, Jeremy Stringer, The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration, →ISBN
The Creole affair is important because, from the slaves' standpoint, the Creole affair was the most successful slave revolt in American history.
2014, Arthur T. Downey, The Creole Affair, →ISBN
She wore a starched white affair on her head, had a wart on one cheek, and silver-rimmed spectacles hung on the tip of her nose.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200
The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

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From Middle English afere, affere, from Old French afaire, from a- + faire (“to do”), from Latin ad- + facere (“to do”). See fact, and compare ado.