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1. Matters of personal concern
   "get his affairs in order"
   - personal business, personal matters
    
2. Transactions of professional or public interest
   "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"

1. A vaguely specified concern
   "it is none of your affair"
   - matter, thing
    
2. A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
   - affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour
    
3. A vaguely specified social event
   "the party was quite an affair"
   - occasion, social occasion, function, social function

Type of: concern, dealing, dealings, sexual relationship, social event, transaction

Encyclopedia: Affair