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land-office business
land-of·fice business (lănd′ô′fĭs, -ŏf′ĭs)n. A thriving, extensive, or rapidly moving volume of trade.land-office business n informal US and Canadian a booming or thriving business land′-of`fice busi′ness
n. a lively, booming, expanding, or very profitable business. [1830–40, Amer.] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | land-office business - very large and profitable volume of commercial activitybusiness - the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" |
land-office business
land-office businessA very large volume of trade or business, especially when conducted in or over a short period of time. We always do a land-office business in camping tents in the weeks leading up to the local music festival.See also: businessland-office businessFig. a large amount of business done in a short period of time. We always do a land-office business at this time of year. We keep going. Never do land-office business—just enough to make out.See also: businessland-office businessA thriving, expanding, or very profitable concern or volume of trade. For example, After the storm they did a land-office business in snow shovels and rock salt. This term, dating from the 1830s, alludes to the throng of applicants to government land offices through which Western lands were sold. It has been used for other booming business since the mid-1800s. See also: businessland-office business, aA booming enterprise. This term dates from the 1830s and refers to local land offices of the U.S. government that registered applicants for purchasing government lands in the West. Although the government had been in the business of selling its land to settlers since Revolutionary times, from the 1820s on this business was greatly augmented and land offices saw long lines of applicants. By the mid-nineteenth century the term land-office business had been transferred to any fast-expanding or very profitable enterprise. Reporting on an election in 1875, the Chicago Tribune stated, “The taprooms adjoining the polls were all open and doing a land-office business.”land-office business
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