/bɪˈznʌsmæˌn/ - [biznusman] - busi•ness•man
We found 4 definitions of businessman from 4 different sources.
NounPlural: businessmen |
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businessman - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | ||
man of affairs | ||
businessperson, bourgeois a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | ||
amalgamator a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | ||
arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | ||
big businessman, business leader, magnate, top executive, tycoon, baron, mogul, power, king a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" | ||
industrialist someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise | ||
oilman a worker who produces or sells petroleum | ||
operator an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard" | ||
proprietor, owner (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" | ||
small businessman | ||
suit a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color; "they buried him in his best suit" | ||
syndicator a businessman who forms a syndicate | ||
transactor someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations |