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women's business

women's business noun: in Australian Indigenous culture: cultural practies which are the exclusive preserve of women, especially ceremonies which are only open to women.

Noun

women's business (uncountable)

  1. In Australian Indigenous culture: cultural practies which are the exclusive preserve of women, especially ceremonies which are only open to women.
    • We've been doing women's business all day. This too was women's business. If I couldn't trust an Elder, a healer, with my secrets, who could I?2022, Annalise Ingham, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 53
  2. (Australia, colloquial, humorous) Subjects which women generally prefer to discuss amongst themselves rather than with men.

Questions about women's business

What does women's business mean?
Women's business means in Australian Indigenous culture: cultural practies which are the exclusive preserve of women, especially ceremonies which are only open to women.
What part of speech is women's business?
Women's business is a noun.

Words near women's business in the dictionary

  1. women of the world
  2. women on the street
  3. women servants
  4. women ☕
  5. women's
  6. women's business
  7. Women's Christmas
  8. Women's Ku Klux Klan
  9. women's lib
  10. women's libber
  11. women's libbers

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