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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun businessman has 1 sense
- businessman(n = noun.person) man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive); Array has particulars: amalgamator, arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur, baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon, industrialist, oilman, operator, owner, proprietor, small businessman, suit, syndicator, transactor, cornell, ezra cornell, e. h. harriman, edward henry harriman, harriman, hill, j. j. hill, james jerome hill, collis potter huntington, huntington, first baron marks of broughton, marks, simon marks, david sarnoff, sarnoff, leland stanford, stanford, george stephenson, stephenson, henry villard, villard, john wanamaker, wanamaker, aaron montgomery ward, montgomery ward, ward, frank winfield woolworth, woolworth, rudolf wurlitzer, wurlitzer
is a kind of bourgeois, businessperson
CIDE DICTIONARY
businessman, a.
a person employed in a business at a managerial level, especially an executive or proprietor.
"This term is seldom applied to technical specialists, unless they are part of upper management."
[PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
businessman, n. (pl. -men; fem. businesswoman, pl. -women) a man or woman engaged in trade or commerce, esp. at a senior level (see also business person).
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