Word Meanings - SELF-AFFAIRS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One's own affairs; one's private business. Shak.

BUSINESS
The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
PRIVATEERING
Cruising in a privateer.
PRIVATEERSMAN
An officer or seaman of a privateer.
BUSINESSLIKE
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
PRIVATE
to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward and akin to prae 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or
PRIVATELY
1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
PRIVATEER
1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque. 2. The commander of a privateer. Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
PRIVATENESS
1. Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy. Bacon. 2. The state of one not invested with public office.
SELF-AFFAIRS
One's own affairs; one's private business. Shak.