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.
  • Store brands have always been big business—and for good reason.
    — Jane Black, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Soon after that, Clark gave his first major speech for a big business crowd.
    — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Over the past decade, music docs have become big business in theaters and on streaming platforms.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2022
  • These are business decisions emerging from a sport that grew into big business.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The impetus has come from government and big business, among other sources.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Recently, some lenders have started trying to turn that demand into a big business.
    — Fortune, 25 Jan. 2022
  • For decades, the Republicans styled themselves as the party of big business and free trade.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • There are so many reasons a 70-mile power line makes no sense at all other than to serve the interests of big business.
    — Jerald Brown, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
  • On the other hand, Summers has made much of his career working for big business, especially finance.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Manure is big business for Connecticut farms, and the 10 biggest farms in the state generate a lot of manure.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2024
  • The drive-thru has always been a big business for the quick-service segment, generating about 70% of sales at several chains.
    — Alicia Kelso, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Recruiting is big business in college athletics, especially in football, where the practice of trying to get the next blue chip recruit to attend your favorite school has become a year round business.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2022
  • So that the next time there’s a shot at getting a big business.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 July 2022
  • The Left is using big business to censor free speech, the Fox host said.
    — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • That's big business around the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where Hill lives.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Return to menu Railroads have been called the nation’s first big business.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In the big business of cannabis, MedMen is hardly the only one struggling.
    — Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Democrats by tradition were the party that railed against banks and big business.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
  • To be sure, the queen is genuinely popular, and the royals have been a big business for decades now.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Nostalgic toys for adults are big business Toys aren’t just for kids.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
  • That said, Ged is insistent that his mission is to take on big business.
    — David Prosser, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • The big game means big business for Prime Pizza in Los Angeles.
    — CBS News, 13 Feb. 2022
  • There’s big business to be done in Botox – and other injectables – and Nicci Levy wants to own a nice-sized chunk of it.
    — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The odds are stacked against them in a country where warehousing people is big business.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023

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