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large business, commercial, and financial firms taken collectively, esp. when considered as a group having shared attitudes and goals and exercising control over economic policy, politics, etc.; any large organization of a noncommercial nature resembling this; any large business enterprise

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  • Traditional big-business Republicans support trade.
  • But this big-business borrowing won't create new jobs.
  • The DP is a big-business capitalist party at the core of its being.
  • THIS Congress will not rubberstamp Cheney's big-business giveaways.
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