Big five (disambiguation)
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Big five can have the following meanings:
- Big 5 Sporting Goods, Template:Nasdaq
- Big Five (Hawaii), an oligarchy of five corporations that ruled over Hawaii
- Big5, a character encoding method of unknown origin for Traditional Chinese characters
- Big Five can also refer to the five biggest commercial banks in Canada: Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia. See also Big Five banks and Big Six banks.
- The Philadelphia Big 5, an association of college athletic programs in Philadelphia, formed by the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Saint Joseph's University, Villanova University, and La Salle University.
- Big Five can refer to the five major media giants which dominate the global music market: Universal Music Group, Sony, EMI, Warner Brothers and BMG. Since the merger of Sony and BMG, these are now the Big Four.
- Big Five is a colloquial term for the members of the defacto Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China pre-1956.
- Big Five (African Wildlife), a term coined by the hunting fraternity in Africa to refer to the five most dangerous animals to hunt i.e. Rhinoceros, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant and Lion.
- The big five personality constructs (Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability)
- Big Five (orchestras), the traditional top five orchestras in America.
- The Big Five, the five largest extinction events.
- The Big Five auditors, the five largest international public accountancy firms which became the Big Four auditors after the collapse of Arthur Andersen in the Enron scandal.