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man of affairs
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun man of affairs has 1 sense
- man of affairs(n = noun.person) businessman - 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
man of affairs, n.
A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). [WordNet 1.5]
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