big business

suurpääoma, suuryritykset puhekieltä Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence.
1940 March 18, "http://books.google.ca/books?id=nj8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22big+government%22&q=big+governmentv=snippet&q=big%20government&f=false Life on the Newsfronts of the World: Big Government," Life, p. 26 (retrieved 13 Dec 2011):

Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. . . . "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government."

In an uncharacteristic rebuff to big business, President Carlos Saul Menem plans this week to propose a package of labor regulations that leaves intact most Government-mandated severance benefits and limits companies' right to hire part-time workers.

That smacks of cozy dealings between the government and the tycoons . . . . "Invariably, people see this as a conspiracy between the government and big business," says legislator Alan Leong.