personal business

1. 1.

   matters of personal concern

   “get his affairs in order”

   Synonymspersonal mattersaffairs

   Broaderconcern

   Narrowerdirty linen

Questions about personal business

What does personal business mean?

personal business means "matters of personal concern".

What is another word for personal business?

Close synonyms include personal matters, affairs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is personal business a common word?

personal 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.