Businessman
['bɪznɪsmən] or ['bɪznəsmæn]
Definition
(noun.) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive).
Edited by Ingram--From WordNet
Examples
- Then our comrade, always a shrewd businessman, offered to take the whole cargo at thirty days, but that little financial scheme was a failure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Don't go to school, I'm a businessman--girl, I mean. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You are too good a businessman for that. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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