How to Use big business in a Sentence

big business

noun
  • Tourism is big business in the region.
  • The tax proposal will be of most benefit to big business.
  • But that doesn’t mean big business would pay that amount.
    NBC News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In fact, the space between topline goals and substance could be big business for many of the companies companies signed on to the pledge.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Setting aside his relationship with Mayo, Walz’s record of standing up to big business is mixed.
    Max Nesterak, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Shin Choon-ho had a hunch in the mid-1960s that instant ramen noodles could become a big business.
    Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Rural residents only wanted to see a decrease in government spending on two things: big business and oil and gas projects.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Is there any reason to think that the Chamber of Commerce, to the extent that it is aligned with big business, would be any different?
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But for now, as the holiday season ramps up, store credit cards remain big business for retailers – and a costly expense for consumers.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Small businesses are a big business for technology companies.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Yet in this hyperpartisan moment, the issue has become an all-out political battle, with big business caught in the middle.
    New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Flatter structures can allow for faster decision-making in big businesses, while still respecting the importance of due diligence.
    Doug Baird, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Today Republicans are raising record amounts of money even though big business is jumping on the Democratic bandwagon.
    WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
  • On a host of hot-button cultural issues, from state election laws to equity-training programs in the workplace, big business seems to be in lockstep with Democratic dogma.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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

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