Definitions

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  • noun A big business; business of a certain extent.

Etymologies

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From mega- +‎ business.

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Examples

  • Of course, he's the man behind the Virgin brand, a megabusiness that sells everything from plane rides to gym memberships.

    CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2009 2009

  • General Motors and Ford, just to name two brands of compulsive corporate inflexibility, appear to be learning that lesson too late at this writing, as more U.S. megabusiness icons like them (and including them) threaten to close their doors.

    A Note to Capitalism's Economists: It's all About the Consumer -- Period 2008

  • If transformation means rolling in the aisles and doing a Satanic possession act - again, hooray UU for staying out of that megabusiness.

    Philocrites: Megachurch pastor: UUs just don't do transformation. 2008

  • It can be daunting to consider taking on megabusiness, but your power as a consumer really can change the way corporate giants behave.

    Trans Fats M.A. Judith Shaw 2004

  • It can be daunting to consider taking on megabusiness, but your power as a consumer really can change the way corporate giants behave.

    Trans Fats M.A. Judith Shaw 2004

  • It can be daunting to consider taking on megabusiness, but your power as a consumer really can change the way corporate giants behave.

    Trans Fats M.A. Judith Shaw 2004

  • The story is essentially the same as it was 30 years ago, only it's been drawn against the backdrop of megabusiness.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • Even before the 1980s, when teen pregnancy was first decreed a national problem, sex education had been a megabusiness for consultants, educators, and advocates.

    City Journal 2010

  • Naturally, the forcible disconnection of actions from consequences has led to a series of catastrophes and misadventures -- bumbled intrusions in Iraq and Afghanistan while failing to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, a ghastly housing bubble and crash of financial markets followed by a nagging recession, horrifyingly irresponsible expansion of government debt, a grotesque comedy of errors as the federal government and a multinational megabusiness fail to plug an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, children's academic achievement at a disastrously low level, entertainment and arts given over in great part to proselytizing for the aristocracy's pet political causes and character assassination of all who dare to question that agenda, and so on and on.

    Latest Articles 2010

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