Affair | Mean of affair in English Dictionary

/əˈfeɚ/

• Noun
• work or activities done for a purpose
1. The group conducts its affairs [=business] in private.
2. We were told to arrange/settle our affairs. = We were told to put our affairs in order.
3. handling/managing someone else's affairs
4. They seem to be quite pleased with the current/present state of affairs. [=situation]
5. She's the company's director of public affairs. [=the person who manages a company's relationship with the public]
6. She's an expert in foreign affairs. [=events and activities that involve foreign countries]
7. world/international affairs [=events and activities that involve different nations]
8. After the war, the government focused on its own domestic affairs.
9. They accused the U.S. of interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.
• a matter that concerns or involves someone
1. This has nothing to do with you. It's not your affair. [=business, concern] = It's none of your affair. [=business]
2. How I choose to live is my affair, not yours.
• a secret sexual relationship between two people
1. adulterous/extramarital affairs between married men and single women
2. She divorced her husband after she discovered that he was having an affair.
3. She had an affair with a coworker.

• a social event or activity
1. He wants to make their wedding day an affair to remember. [=a special event]
2. a simple/elaborate affair
3. We were invited to a black-tie affair [=a party in which men wear tuxedos and women wear fancy dresses] at the governor's mansion.
• an event or series of events that usually involves well-known people
1. the famous hostage affair of the late 1970s
2. The public has shown little interest in the whole affair.
3. the Iran-Contra affair [=scandal]
• something made or produced
1. The only bridge across the river was a flimsy affair of ropes and rotten wood.