unfinished business

1. 1.

   work that is left incomplete

   Synonymsloose end

   Broaderwork

Questions about unfinished business

What does unfinished business mean?

unfinished business means "work that is left incomplete".

What is another word for unfinished business?

Close synonyms include loose end. 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 unfinished business a common word?

unfinished 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.