n.
A thriving, extensive, or rapidly moving volume of trade.
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land-office business
American Heritage Dictionary:
land-of·fice business |
n.
A thriving, extensive, or rapidly moving volume of trade.
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Barron's Business Dictionary:
land-office business |
Booming trade; perhaps derived from the activity of U.S. government land offices established to give away land to Western settlers.
| Land Development, Land Contract, Land Banking | |
| Land Trust, Land, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Land-Use Intensity |
American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms:
land-office business |
A thriving, expanding, or very profitable concern or volume of trade. For example, After the storm they did a land-office business in snow shovels and rock salt. This term, dating from the 1830s, alludes to the throng of applicants to government land offices through which Western lands were sold. It has been used for other booming business since the
mid-1800s.
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 | land (Idiom) |
| land office (word origin: 1681) |
| business (Idiom) |
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