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Что (кто) такое affair - определение

SECRETIVE SEXUAL AND USUALLY ADULTEROUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE
Extra-marital affair; Extramarital affairs; Extramarital affair; Sexual affair; Romantic affair; Sex affair
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affair         
(affairs)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair.
The government has mishandled the whole affair...
The affair began when customs officials inspected a convoy of 60 tankers...
= business, matter
N-SING: the N
2.
You can refer to an important or interesting event or situation as 'the ... affair'. (mainly JOURNALISM)
...the damage caused to the CIA and FBI in the aftermath of the Watergate affair.
N-SING: usu the n-proper N
3.
You can describe the main quality of an event by saying that it is a particular kind of affair.
Michael said that his planned 10-day visit would be a purely private affair...
N-SING: usu supp N
4.
You can describe an object as a particular kind of affair when you want to draw attention to a particular feature, or indicate that it is unusual.
All their beds were distinctive; Mac's was an iron affair with brass knobs...
N-SING: supp N
5.
If two people who are not married to each other have an affair, they have a sexual relationship.
She was having an affair with someone at work.
N-COUNT
see also love affair
6.
You can use affairs to refer to all the important facts or activities that are connected with a particular subject.
He does not want to interfere in the internal affairs of another country...
N-PLURAL: usu supp N
7.
Your affairs are all the matters connected with your life which you consider to be private and normally deal with yourself.
The unexpectedness of my father's death meant that his affairs were not entirely in order.
N-PLURAL: usu poss N
8.
If you say that a decision or situation is someone's affair, you mean that it is their responsibility, and other people should not interfere.
If you wish to make a fool of yourself, that is your affair...
= business
N-SING: poss N
affair         
n.
1.
Business, concern, function, duty, office, matter, circumstance, question, subject.
2.
Event, occurrence, incident, transaction, proceeding, performance.
3.
Battle, engagement, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush.
affair         
¦ noun
1. an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to.
2. a matter that is a particular person's concern or responsibility.
(affairs) matters of public interest and importance.
(affairs) business and financial dealings.
3. a love affair.
Origin
ME: from OFr. afaire, from a faire 'to do'; cf. ado.

Википедия

Affair

An affair is a sexual relationship, romantic friendship, or passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has a formal or informal commitment to a third person who may neither agree to such relationship nor even be aware of it.

Примеры употребления для affair
1. When you add the president‘s affair to the prime minister‘s affair and the finance minister‘s affair and the Tax Authority officials‘ affair and the former justice minister‘s affair, it creates an entire mosaic of corruption.
2. Ehud Olmert is caught up in seven different affairs that the public knows about: the Bank Leumi affair, the Cremieux Street affair, the appointments in the Small Business Bureau affair, the benefits in the investment center affair, the cash envelopes of Moshe Talansky affair, the private bank of Uri Messer affair, and the double receipts for first–class flights affair.
3. The Talansky Affair and the Messer Affair both stem from each other, and feed each other.
4. Is that a fact that the Iranian affair is more solid than the Iraqi affair was?
5. We are increasingly making this issue an individual affair, rather than a community affair.