business trip

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business trip (plural business trips)

  1. Travel for business purposes, often paid for at least partially by the employer.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      I had occasion [] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, [] and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

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