land-office business

1. 1.

   very large and profitable volume of commercial activity

   Broaderbusiness

Questions about land-office business

What does land-office business mean?

land-office business means "very large and profitable volume of commercial activity".

Is land-office business a common word?

land-office business is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.