BUSINESSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does businessman mean? 

• BUSINESSMAN (noun)
  The noun BUSINESSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

  Familiarity information: BUSINESSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

businessman; man of affairs

Hypernyms ("businessman" is a kind of...):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "businessman"):

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))

amalgamator (a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies)

transactor (someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations)

syndicator (a businessman who forms a syndicate)

suit ((slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit)

small businessman (a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people)

owner; proprietor ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business)

operator (someone who owns or operates a business)

oilman (a person who owns or operates oil wells)

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

baron; big businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon (a very wealthy or powerful businessman)

Instance hyponyms:

Rudolf Wurlitzer; Wurlitzer (United States businessman (born in Germany) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914))

Frank Winfield Woolworth; Woolworth (United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919))

Aaron Montgomery Ward; Montgomery Ward; Ward (United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913))

John Wanamaker; Wanamaker (United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922))

Henry Villard; Villard (United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900))

George Stephenson; Stephenson (English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848))

Leland Stanford; Stanford (United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893))

David Sarnoff; Sarnoff (United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971))

First Baron Marks of Broughton; Marks; Simon Marks (English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964))

Collis Potter Huntington; Huntington (United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900))

Hill; J. J. Hill; James Jerome Hill (United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916))

E. H. Harriman; Edward Henry Harriman; Harriman (United States railway tycoon (1848-1909))

Cornell; Ezra Cornell (United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874))

 Context examples 

But you are not merely a businessman, you love good and beautiful things, enjoy them yourself, and let others go halves, as you always did in the old times.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That gentleman was depicted as an intelligent, dignified businessman who had no patience with his brother-in-law's socialistic views, and no patience with the brother-in-law, either, whom he was quoted as characterizing as a lazy good-for-nothing who wouldn't take a job when it was offered to him and who would go to jail yet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And I've succeeded beyond my hopes, for here you are, a steady, sensible businessman, doing heaps of good with your money, and laying up the blessings of the poor, instead of dollars.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Don't go to school, I'm a businessman—girl, I mean. I go to wait on my great-aunt, and a dear, cross old soul she is, too," answered Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)