have no business
English
Verb
have no business (third-person singular simple present has no business, present participle having no business, simple past and past participle had no business)
- To not have a right or privilege to do something.
- 2021, Edwards v. Vannoy (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19–5807), Justice Gorsuch concurring:
- We take this step not because this Court's criminal procedure rulings are somehow unimportant.... Instead, we abandon Teague's test because it poses a question this Court has no business asking.
- 2021, Edwards v. Vannoy (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19–5807), Justice Gorsuch concurring:
Further reading
- “have no business”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “have no business”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “have no business” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “have no business”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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