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land-office business definition

☆ land·-office business (land′ôf′is)

Informal a booming business

Etymology: with ref. to Western U.S. land offices in the 19th c.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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