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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIHilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTHe wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXIt was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKWith Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME II OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLORA letter from Fajardo to the king (December 10, 1621) concerns various matters of administration and business.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSMy husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSI mean it is well my mother is ill, and doesn't wish to eat, for there would be nothing for her, if she did.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONMoreover, Napoleon, so great in many things, was so jealous of his own glory that he could be mean beyond words.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThe father of Mr. Stacy Marks predestined him for the coach-building business.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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WORDS RELATED TO MEAN BUSINESS
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- bent on
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- decided
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- hard-as-nails
- hardboiled
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- on ice
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- immobile
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- ineluctable
- inescapable
- inflexible
- ironclad
- like death and taxes
- locked in
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- necessary
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- be out for blood
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- bound
- calculated
- dead set on
- decided
- deliberate
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- firm
- fixed
- intense
- intent
- mean business
- obstinate
- persistent
- playing hard ball
- positive
- purposive
- resolute
- settled
- single-minded
- stalwart
- staunch
- steadfast
- steady
- strong-willed
- stubborn
- telelogical
- tenacious
- undeviating
- unfaltering
- unwavering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.