How to Use big business in a Sentence

big business

noun
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  • Tourism is big business in the region.
  • The tax proposal will be of most benefit to big business.
  • Who would have thought that big business would begin adopting policies that put people first?
    — Tammy Homegardner, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Culture war is big business, and the reason the flies are swarming now is that there’s as much attention in this for them as for the artist.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Millions of pet owners have wondered the same over the last decade or so, driving what has become big business in pet genotyping.
    — John Bussey, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Humans have been gathering various wild fungi since ancient times, but never before have mushrooms been such big business.
    — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Hunting is big business in Michigan as hundreds of thousands of hunters will head out for the annual deer firearm season, which starts Friday and lasts two weeks, in search of game.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2024
  • To keep property taxes low for big business, for example, the governor had to raise sales and excise taxes just to pay for essential government functions.
    — Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
  • McConnell more pointedly warned the big business that have been responding to public pressure on their corporate actions not to give in to the advocacy campaigns.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Her hit list included capitalist society, the media, patriarchy, big business, and the government.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2021
  • So that the next time there’s a shot at getting a big business.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 July 2022
  • But that doesn’t mean big business would pay that amount.
    — NBC News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The Left is using big business to censor free speech, the Fox host said.
    — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Heading to space isn't too bad for your first big business trip.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2021
  • That's big business around the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where Hill lives.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Cornhole is big business these days, with a decade-old pro tour and stops in 35 cities this year.
    — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Bridal was and continues to be a big business for the store, with about 70 percent of the bridal styles coming from the in-house brand.
    — Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • With the absence of fans last year, the NCAA expects to do big business this year at the eight regionals spread across the land.
    — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The sheer loss of shareholder value would seem to make this one of the big business stories of our time.
    — Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
  • By the mid-1970s, such shelters had become big business on Wall Street.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2021
  • That means potentially big business for sportsbooks in the Phoenix area and around the state.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • It’s sometime easy to think that an idea has the potential to be the next big business, APP or movement?
    — Stephen Gerard, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • There’s much more to the executive order, and even more than that to be done to rein in big business.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • Return to menu Railroads have been called the nation’s first big business.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The relic trade was big business at the time; relics were bought and sold, and pilgrims often paid a fee to visit them.
    — Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Soon after that, Clark gave his first major speech for a big business crowd.
    — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In terms of prices, the plan worked — especially for big business.
    — James Osborne, San Antonio Express-News, 29 May 2021
  • In the big business of cannabis, MedMen is hardly the only one struggling.
    — Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Store brands have always been big business—and for good reason.
    — Jane Black, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Democrats by tradition were the party that railed against banks and big business.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022

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