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land-office business

 
Dictionary: land-of·fice business   (lănd'ô'fĭs, -ŏf'ĭs)
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A thriving, extensive, or rapidly moving volume of trade.


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Booming trade; perhaps derived from the activity of U.S. Government land offices established to give away land to Western settlers.

Idioms: land-office business
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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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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: very large and profitable volume of commercial activity

 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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