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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Return to menu Railroads have been called the nation’s first big business.
    Lee Powell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Soon after that, Clark gave his first major speech for a big business crowd.
    oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Baseball is a big business, and the players are right to be diligent about getting their fair share.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Superyachts like the Eclipse are big business and getting bigger in every sense of the word.
    Stephen Burgen, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The hajj, a holy trip to Mecca that Muslims are encouraged to take once in their lives, used to be big business.
    New York Times, 12 July 2022
  • So tell me a little bit about how egg freezing became a big business.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But that’s what colonial powers did, and that’s what big business is still doing.
    Vladan Shir, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Most retailers will see big business in the short term, but those that come to play the long game will be the winners come January.
    Daniel Newman, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • For decades, the Republicans styled themselves as the party of big business and free trade.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • The sheer size of the hack underlines the scale of the cybersecurity challenge facing big business.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 July 2024

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